Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button
by e12e on Thursday June 07, 2018 @01:47PM
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> I think primarily identity and git locations.
Accounts/authorization is already semi-federated through oauth etc. You can sign in to gitlab.com using your github.com account.
We still have only one kind of namespacing and for users and projects: domains, leveraged by Java (and go, others?) for packages, and email for identity.
Discoverability is really a matter of indexes and catalogs; npm, pypi, Google and duckduckgo.
Delegating login is actually useful for self-hosted vcs/issue trackers: not as low friction as just sending an email with a patch; but it's easier to be able to "sign in" with an existing account, add an issue/code - and get notifications via email - rather than having to manage an account for every program you use and find bugs in...
Accounts/authorization is already semi-federated through oauth etc. You can sign in to gitlab.com using your github.com account.
We still have only one kind of namespacing and for users and projects: domains, leveraged by Java (and go, others?) for packages, and email for identity.
Discoverability is really a matter of indexes and catalogs; npm, pypi, Google and duckduckgo.
Delegating login is actually useful for self-hosted vcs/issue trackers: not as low friction as just sending an email with a patch; but it's easier to be able to "sign in" with an existing account, add an issue/code - and get notifications via email - rather than having to manage an account for every program you use and find bugs in...