Questions about main.php.net and people.php.net

2 years ago by Aaron Junker — view source

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Hi all,

I'm currently in preparation for writing my RFC for a global php.net login system[1] and I have two questions I need your opinion/knowledge on:

Is main.php.net still relevant? So, as far as I can see you can use this website to login with your @php.net credentials. But I can't find any information on how you get such a mail address/account or what these accounts are used for. So could anyone give more context on that?
Is people.php.net still used by people? For me it does seem like something no one uses anymore, but I could be wrong.

Best regards
Aaron Junker

[1] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/global_login

2 years ago by Sergey Panteleev — view source

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Hey Aaron,

main is still used for member management, at least the settings for mail forwarding @php.net are specified there.
people only used to display information about members, no management logic there.
It used to display user's "karma" as well, but with the transition to GitHub this information is no longer relevant.

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wbr,
Sergey Panteleev

2 years ago by Sergey Panteleev — view source

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I'm not sure it's worth shutting down, it's not bothering anyone =)

Aside: The community is quite large, and it's not always easy to find who is responsible for what or who has what access.
When I needed access to the edit-box server, it took a long time to find someone who could grant me that access.
IMO, instead of karma and count of assigned bugs, we can display other useful information.

Hi Sergey,

Thank you for answering my questions. So, when I see this right, people.php.net could get shut down. >Right? (Anyway I will add a voting for this in my RFC)

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wbr,
Sergey Panteleev

2 years ago by Ben Ramsey — view source

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I'm not sure it's worth shutting down, it's not bothering anyone =)

Aside: The community is quite large, and it's not always easy to find who is responsible for what or who has what access.
When I needed access to the edit-box server, it took a long time to find someone who could grant me that access.
IMO, instead of karma and count of assigned bugs, we can display other useful information.

Hi Sergey,

Thank you for answering my questions. So, when I see this right, people.php.net could get shut down. >Right? (Anyway I will add a voting for this in my RFC)

Whether to shut down a service doesn't seem relevant to an RFC for an
authentication system. Be sure you don't overload your RFC with too much
scope.

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Cheers,
Ben

2 years ago by Aaron Junker — view source

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I'm not sure it's worth shutting down, it's not bothering anyone =)

Aside: The community is quite large, and it's not always easy to find who is
responsible for what or who has what access.
When I needed access to the edit-box server, it took a long time to find
someone who could grant me that access.
IMO, instead of karma and count of assigned bugs, we can display other
useful information.

Hi Sergey,

Thank you for answering my questions. So, when I see this right,
people.php.net could get shut down. >Right? (Anyway I will add a
voting for this in my RFC)

Whether to shut down a service doesn't seem relevant to an RFC for an
authentication system. Be sure you don't overload your RFC with too much
scope.

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Cheers,
Ben

Hi Ben

Yes, this might be out of scope. You're right.

I will try not to overload my RFC, but with all the different login systems on php.net it might get difficult to keep it small. Still I will try my best.

Best regards
Aaron Junker