Karlin High <karlinh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 1:19 PM Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on > LilyPond development <lilypond-devel@gnu.org> wrote: >> >> Am Mittwoch, den 11.03.2020, 18:55 +0100 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys: >> > Gerrit itself does not have an authentication service. See >> > https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/config-gerrit.html#auth >> > >> > ; I guess in our circumstances, we could do OAuth on top of Google, >> > Github or Facebook accounts. >> > >> > What do you mean with "own authentication service" ? >> >> I mean: Is there a hosted Gerrit that does not require a GitHub >> account? Ideally with the possibility to create an account just for >> that. > > If a hosted Gerrit service could use ANY OAuth provider, surely > there's a sufficiently neutral and uncontroversial one somewhere that > works for LilyPond purposes? The big-name tech companies all tend to > have fair numbers of people avoiding them by principle. GNU Social (no > experience, little research) apparently has an Open ID service, which > is similar-but-different than OAuth?
Rietveld takes OAuth if I understand correctly. While I don't really know whether that is "sufficiently neutral and uncontroversial", it is something we have depended on for a long time. So while it is always good to improve, it doesn't sound like it should be a complete deal breaker. -- David Kastrup
