On Fri, 23 Feb 2018, Enrico Zini wrote: Hi Enrico,
> > > Are there other ways in stretch of getting apache to authenticate > > > against gitlab? > > I would wait for the gsoc project. And on the alioth sprint, several people > > decided against using salsa as backend for sso, but the other way round. > > So please don't. > > Please do not switch Alioth off, nor disable creation of new accounts on > alioth, until then. Being able to get a SSO certificate as a non-DD is > currently a required step to become a DD. Please don't get me wrong, that decision was a team decision done at the spring (and I didn't even voted for it) - however I stand behind such team decisions and follow them like they are my own. I think I owe you some reasoning. It was decided that relying again on a service wouldn't be the best idea if the would have to move to some other solution - the whole fun would start again. We also took into account that the may be another implementation of a git service. We decided that the best solution would be another new, authorative backend for guest users and dms, that can work independently of the service. However, I hoped that someone else would take care about that new hypothetic service/backend. Appearently that wasn't the case, until yesterday noone expressed interest in *doing* the work. Therefore I decided that I should take care about it and started the gsoc project (I even applied as admin to ensure it will really happen). I also invited you to take part in the project - the response wasn't very enthusiastic. I do really hope that we can have a good backend for guestuser and dm authorisation and authentiction at the end of the summer. Something like ud-ldap that can serve us for the next years. I still hope that you will join us in that mission. Alex
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