[OpenID board] BOARD VOTE: Motion to update Rails plugin andOpenID.net ...

[Dick Hardt]

On 18-Dec-08, at 10:27 AM, Brian Kissel wrote:

> I don’t know how much more clear I can be.  I’m NOT advocating for  
> RPX, I’m advocating for a better UX on the OIDF website.  Rip out  
> RPX today, that’s fine.  Ask the community how we can improve OpenID  
> login on the OIDF website, then get volunteers to implement it or  
> pay Refresh or anyone else to implement it.  But let’s make the OIDF  
> website a showcase of the goodness of OpenID for users and RPs.   
> Like it or not, the OIDF website is a showcase for the broader  
> market, not just a tool for OIDF members.  If we can improve UX and  
> maintain neutrality, great.  But let’s not sacrifice UX for  
> neutrality if we know that the existing neutral UX is NOT  
> intuitive.  Would love to see some ideas on what we could be doing  
> to improve intuitiveness rather than just saying a text box is  
> neutral, so let’s just take the easy path and go that way.
>
> Would like to hear from some others on how we can improve  
> intuitiveness and whether it’s important, not only on our website,  
> but as a fundamental goal for the OIDF.

That is more clear -- although your other comments indicate you are  
justifying why it is ok to use RPX.

OpenID UX is an issue. I do NOT think the OIDF website is the place to  
experiment, particularly during an election process.

This is a technical issue -- and the OIDF is there to facilitate  
resolving the problem -- the Foundation bylaws explicitly forbid the  
Foundation from directly resolving technical issues.

There is pretty active discussion on UX issues on the lists now. I  
think people are looking at how to solve it -- and there is NO clear  
solution that has gained consensus.

I think we are WAY off topic on this thread now.

-- Dick

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