[development] Core drupal.module moved to contribsite_network.module

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Oct 10 12:23:32 UTC 2007


Quoting James Walker <walkah at walkah.net>:

> On 9-Oct-07, at 11:03 AM, Boris Mann wrote:
>> On 10/9/07, Sean Robertson <seanr at ngpsoftware.com> wrote:
>>> I've been able to use @drupal.org on quite a few other sites too,  so I
>>> think it'd be a good idea to focus some efforts on making this  backwards
>>> compatible.
>>
>> I think we can probably enable a special openid_drupal module that
>> dereferences username at drupal.org (or configurable,
>> username at example.com) for backwards compatibility. Anyone want to look
>> at what it would take for this?
>
> IMO, this is wasted effort... and doesn't actually fix anything.  
> There isn't really 'backwards compatibility' here... we *want* people 
>  to get out of the habit of entering their d.o (or other) username &  
> password around on the web.
>

Let the foo at example.com be the username.  I.E. allow the use of @ in 
the username without treating it special.  This might require a 
password reset but the user can request that himself.  Feasible?

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