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Channa Gunawardena wrote: > Hi All, > > Changing the self registration process to accept an infocard seems to be > a fairly easy, but there are two things I personally don't like with the > approach that seems to be taking shape: > > 1) Using the PPID in place of the user name - this will give us the most > unfriendly user directory name I can imagine :-(. -1 for creepy cryptic stuff in user directory names. > 2) Skipping the e-mail verification process - since users can register > with self issued cards (where e-mail ID's have been specified by the > users themselves) without e-mail verification, we wont know if the > e-mail ID supplied by the card is valid. > This won't be an issue, since the infocard provider would have done the verification already. We can assume that the e-mail is valid. However, I'm not sure what you meant by 'self issued' though. Does this mean that people can have fake infocards ? If so, is there a way to verify an inofrcard against a trusted set of providers? > I would propose this: > > 1) Have the infocard icon on the self registration page, but clicking > that will just save the user the trouble of entering the information > already in the card by filling out most of the form and also save a > later association step by automatically associating the PPID with the > profile. +1. The user can enter the additional/optional information later. This pattern is increasingly followed by many community sites. I would also like to suggest a feature in the profile page, which would indicate how complete a users profile is, as a percentage. Ex: "Your profile is 50% complete, filling out your hobbies and interests will bring it to 65%"... and so forth. > 2) The self-reg form will be re-displayed with infocard details filled > it. The user name will still have to be entered at this point and will > not be optional, as we will create the user directory using this. +1 Cheers, Tyrell > 3) I'm fine with not insisting on a password, if the user manager's > e-mail verifier can do it's round trip without one. > > The rest of the process will not change from what we have now. What do > you guys think? > > Bye, > Channa. > - -- Tyrell Perera Senior Software Engineer; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; cell: +94 77 302 2505 "Oxygenating the Web Service Platform." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFHc46AehFdPcgGx7oRAio2AJd12pQsP1ejLoz9vLnZMbNBNI4mAJ9KOIzp sXJsHHsCSyi7xIX811orgg== =5klh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mashup-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mashup-dev
