Comments on: Launchpad 2.1.11: OpenID support and now easier to contact other people

By: Martin Pool

Martin Pool — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:12:21 +0000

There is a bug you can use to track this

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/210943 “launchpad should be an openid consumer”

Incidentally “this month” is confusing when the dates are only shown on some articles on the main news.launchpad.net page. Strange…

By: Francis J. Lacoste

Francis J. Lacoste — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:00:16 +0000

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.

- Francis

By: Rob J. Caskey

Rob J. Caskey — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:55:40 +0000

Humbug!

I’ve already got an OpenID, this doesn’t reduce the number of passwords I have to remember at all! It’s just another OpenID site that won’t accept any other site’s OpenID besides their own, so we end up with 30 OpenIDs that can be used anywhere but are accepted nowhere.

–Rob

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:15:37 +0000

First, I was happy to read that Launchpad now uses OpenID. But after reading the linked page I recognized, that Launchpad is not allowing users to log in with an OpenID, Launchpad is acting as an OpenID server.

What about the people, that already have an OpenID? Is it possible to log into launchpad with my OpenID (not from Launchpad)?