Comments on: OpenID from your Launchpad profile

By: Paul Sladen

Paul Sladen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:23:55 +0000

For those interested, the bug for implementing OpenID consumer login for Launchpad is:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/210943

By: Matthew Revell

Matthew Revell — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:21:49 +0000

To those who haven’t spotted it, you might be happier if you read my comment, above, that we’re making Launchpad into an OpenID consumer next year

Also, we needed Launchpad to be an OpenID provider for a few different things we’ve been working on internally – including our new Drupal modules – and it makes sense for us to share that ability with everyone. We didn’t sit and think, “Hey, how can we make this useful only to half the people?”

By: Stephen Birch

Stephen Birch — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:28:53 +0000

Great …. but:

Every day a new site proudly announces support for OpenID … but always as an OpenID provider. With no place to actually login using OpenID it is quite useless.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:59:34 +0000

I’m a bit late to the party, but I have to chime in to agree with most of the comments on this story. We don’t need YAOP (Yet Another OpenID Provider). Everyone and their mom is an OpenID provider these days. We need all those providers to *also* be consumers.

The whole point of OpenID is to decouple authentication from the service. Why would I want to tie my ID to a particular non-OpenID service (Facebook, Launchpad, etc.)? Rather, I want to use an OpenID-focused provider to authenticate to all the other services.

By: Matthew Revell

Matthew Revell — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:59:10 +0000

@Matt Re logging into this blog with OpenID, it’s coming. I’m not sure exactly when but it should be early 2009.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:58:14 +0000

This is great!

I’ve never used OpenID before this and I’ve used this several times already. Using this is immensely simple and straightforward. Thanks for this great feature. (Among many others, of course)

P.S. Why can’t we comment here using OpenID?

By: Matthew Revell

Matthew Revell — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:22:18 +0000

Francis Lacoste posted this as a comment on the Launchpad 2.1.11 release announcement:

“A lot of users have asked to be able to login and post on third party sites
using their Launchpad identity. It’s more than simply not using having to
create an account, but also a way to socialize their open-source contributions
by linking to their Launchpad profile page.

“But, you’ll be happy to know that we’ll be adding the possibility to add
OpenID identities to your account and use them to log in early next year.”

By: Elias K Gardner

Elias K Gardner — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:02:10 +0000

Im just kicking the bucket to make it ring louder. Being a provider is nice but everyone is a provider. Until websites become consumers the whole system is doomed. This is a shame Im tired of trying to manage my 40+ usernames and passwords.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:22:44 +0000

OpenID consumer support is the only thing we need. There is absolutely no need for another OpenID provider.

By: dave

dave — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:10:46 +0000

I have to agree with the other comments – it would be really useful to be able to log into launchpad with an external openid account. Is this on the cards?