[Twisted-Python] Changes to Twisted's Trac (GitHub Authentication)

[Kevin Horn]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 6:13 AM, Amber "Hawkie" Brown <
hawkowl at atleastfornow.net> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> If you've ever had your password eaten by our Trac instance, had your
> comment rejected by spambayes, or seen the amount of effort it takes
> removing random nulls from our htpasswd files, rejoice! With
> https://github.com/twisted-infra/braid/pull/192 , we are moving our Trac
> instance to log in using GitHub OAuth. This should mean we solve the issue
> of keeping passwords (making you and us more secure), being able to turn
> off the spam filter (as we don't have anonymous ticket submittal, and
> github is better at catching spammers than we are), and hopefully cause
> less ongoing issues with passwords suddenly not working.
>
> What this means for you is that your username and password will no longer
> work for logging into our Trac, you will need to authorise your GitHub
> login to access it. This means that you may have another username, please
> contact me privately and I will see what I can do about migrating any
> ticket histories over, if you feel like it is needed.
>
> - Amber
>
>
Fantastic!

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Kevin Horn
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