+dev-fxacct On Nov 24, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 24/11/14 19:22, Chris Karlof a écrit : >> Supporting FxA login on Mozillans.org sounds reasonable, but we should be >> careful about the implications of that integration. Mozillians.org is >> essentially a social network. E.g., just because a user signs up for FxA to >> use Sync doesn’t mean she necessarily wants a public profile on >> Mozillans.org. Recall Google’s early missteps with Buzz and Google+. > Yeah - I was not thinking about it this way, but rather: > > 1- will fxa-profile provide an UI for people to edit their avatar and > other data ? https://accounts.firefox.com/settings/avatar to change your avatar. We don’t have any other editable data, but when we add it, we’ll expand it the account settings page to accommodate it. > 2- will fxa-profile be Mozillian's backend for profile data ? I’m not sure, but migrating Mozillans.org data to FxA would be a serious effort, so we should understand the value prop there. > 3- will fxa-profile profile data be extended to contain more data. e.g. > if I have a public key I want to share with my fxa profile, will it be > stored in fxa-profile ? > 4- will fxa-profile data be searchable by users/apps ? > > We had a chat w/ Chris, I'll just give his feedback like I understood > it: fxa-profile won't have any browsing capability and advanced UI for > now. But in case a project like Hello needs them, maybe it will be > extended that way. There’s currently not much data in the profile server, and only avatars are “editable”. We provide UI for changing your avatar. There is no way to search for users by email, primarily because 1) it's is a potential privacy leak, and 2) it hasn’t been prioritized. -chris > So on my side here's what I think for now: > > - a public key attached to an fxa profile is what I consider to be a > "core" data that should belong there > - imho, mozillians.org is a perfect place to experiment social features > - it's the first circle of mozilla fans that can help us experiment with > a social feature before it hits a wider audience > - a public key service is the basis for any privacy-aware social feature > like sharing files > - fxa-attached keys can be stored anywhere, so having them in > mozillians.org makes sense for now > > Cheers > Tarek > > _______________________________________________ Dev-fxacct mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct
