On Feb 10, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Jed Brown wrote: > 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.
What, something BitBucket didn't steal? Git here I come. > > 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.
