SourceForge Allows OpenID Logins
If you use open source software then you’ve probably heard about SourceForge before. If you develop open source software then you’ve probably even used some of their infrastructure in the past. Today they’ve made it even easier to login to SourceForge with OpenID. SourgeForge.net isn’t acting as an OpenID Provider but rather is accepting OpenID logins; this is a good thing and reinforces the trend of sites like Ma.gnolia only accepting OpenID logins.
In their announcement OpenID on SourceForge.net they say, “OpenID is getting tremendous traction and we’re happy to be jumping into it. it’s bringing us back in touch with fresh web (2.0) technology. as a decentralized open-source standard, it’s a perfect fit for us - it allows us to streamline more user interaction and participation with our site, and hopefully more for the whole OSS community.” As Steven Osborn points out, SourceForge.net is now one of the most prominent single sites that accepts OpenID to login. Steven also goes on to talk about some of the more advanced things SourceForge allows you to do with your OpenID if you do wish to use your profile URL as an OpenID too.
Congratulations SourceForge for continuing to help get OpenID in the hands of open source developers on a daily basis!
Tags: adoption, openid, relying party, sourceforge
May 2nd, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Nice undertaking from Sourceforge, kudos.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
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May 10th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
[...] (to add a vote for phpMyID) and it works great. SourceForge.net just recently (May 5) added support for OpenID. If you already have an account with SF, you will bind your OpenID to your existing account by [...]
May 14th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I am very disappointed with their implementation of OpenID. They still require you to sign up after you login with your OpenID. This means selecting a username, password, entering your email address, etc. After going through all of that, you still need to verify your email address.
Although I understand and agree with the email address verification. I believe that requiring an entire sign up screen _after_ authenticating with OpenID is really mocking the service. This is NOT how OpenID is supposed to work. There is a big difference between requiring some additional fields not sent during the OpenID authentication and requiring the user to re-enter all of their information.
I have had a SourceForge account for many years now. I was going to vote for the phpMyAdmin project, but figured what the heck lets try the OpenID login. I quickly regretted my decision as I wasted 4 times as much time going that route.
June 12th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I’m glad to see a lot more sites accepting OpenID
July 30th, 2008 at 7:17 am
How can I create an OpenID login. Or it´s to complex for small niche sites?