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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Google deprecating OpenID 2.0

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 09:41:42 -0800
On 2/24/15 1:34 AM, Graham Bloice wrote:
> 
> 
> On 23 February 2015 at 23:51, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2/22/15 6:01 AM, Graham Bloice wrote:
>     > See https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OpenID
>     >
>     > Does this affect our use of Gerrit if we use a Google account to
>     > authenticate?
> 
>     Yes. In case anyone missed the other responses you need to stop
>     authenticating using your Google account and switch to another account
>     before April 20. I've added a notice to the login page.
> 
>     In the near term we need to find a list of stable OpenID 2.0 providers
>     that we can recommend on the login page. In the long term we need to
>     find a more stable way of authenticating to Gerrit.
> 
> 
> And is there any possibility of Gerrit supporting Open ID 2.0 Connect
> which is what Google+ supports and seems to be the future for Open ID? 
> The Gerrit issues tracker is very confusing on this.

I'm not sure. The closest thing I've seen so far was a change to add
GitHub OAuth support but it was abandoned:

https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/c/57570/

The following discussions provide a bit more background:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/repo-discuss/Hjn-6BV3KBU
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/repo-discuss/nrtxry9SNLg