On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 17:01, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > What if I don't have an openid? > > > > Everything uses OpenID now and bitbucket uses it too. I went over this > with you last time. Your gmail, facebook, yahoo, etc. are all automatically > OpenIDs. > > I sure don't want to use my facebook account > Ssshhh, don't let the whole world know you have a facebook account. Then you can't play the curmudgeon at the lunch table. > to access work related stuff, that is absurd. > I have a username and password on bitbucket. It's not linked to gmail or facebook. > > > > > petsc is another account like barryfsmith is an account? Who designed > this monstrosity? > > > > Of course 'petsc' is another account. How else would it work? > > Bitbucket should have a concept of "accounts" (each of us has one of > these) and "repository trees" (which can be equally shared by one or more > accounts). To use accounts to hold a repository tree is moronic because it > makes unsymmetric the relationship between the owner of the account that > owns the repository tree and the other accounts that can do stuff with that > repository tree. So what other idiotic decisions did these morons make? > Github has a special kind of account for "organizations". It just makes repository/access management simpler and the front pages more intuitive. https://github.com/blog/674-introducing-organizations (blog) https://github.com/enthought (example) Bitbucket has a thing called "groups", but it's not really the same. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20120210/ba49dd60/attachment.html>