un-NIH-ing accounts?

[Mark]

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:09 AM, David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Alex Fiestas <afiestas at kde.org> wrote:
>> On Monday 08 October 2012 01:46:40 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
>>> On Sunday, October 7, 2012 23:10:47 Mark wrote:
>>> > This page has a bit more info then the google code link (and the
>>> > packages):
>>> > http://gitorious.org/accounts-sso/pages/Home
>>>
>>> in each of the git repos is a docs/ directory, in which is a doxygen page
>>> that gives more details. the gitorious page is pretty light on details (not
>>> that the doxygen in the git reposs is comprehensive). :/ all in all, pretty
>>> light on information, but at least there is some technical information in
>>> the doxygen pages.
>>
>> This project came out at the last Active sprint, at least 2 people there
>> mentioned that the MeeGo system wasn't something we wanted to keep.
>>
>> I haven't look at the code of the daemon itself but I have looked at the Qt
>> api (so I could get inspired for ours). I have to say that the API is quite
>> complete though I don't like some syntax but nothing that can be changed or
>> even wrapped in case we want to support gnome accounts.
>>
>> Also iirc we should be able to create a third party module for KDE that
>> implements all the goodness we discussed at akademy.
>>
>> One thing I'd like to point out is that using this accounts-sso will not
>> ensure less fragmentation, Ubuntu may decide tomorrow to switch to gnome
>> accounts, or to do their own. So if we use accounts-sso we should be prepared
>> to take maintainership of it in case it gets unmaintained.
>
> It's already fragmented it seems.
> http://debarshiray.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/goa-why-it-is-the-way-it-is/
>
I can't say that it surprises me.. Though i would have hoped
otherwise. On the other hand i can understand that they don't want a
Qt dependency.

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