OpenID – an open single sign-on system. Great! One user-name/pass for all sites requiring a login. I used phpMyID, so I can use my domain’s url, but one can easily get an OpenID at https://www.myopenid.com. It have been about two months since I’ve got my OpenID, but yet I haven’t had the change to use it for once. While there are popular sites like LiveJournal and more that support it, I haven’t had the luck to stumble upon a web site, which supports it and is of use to me.

Imagine if Bugzilla supported OpenID (there have been some efforts 2 years ago – #294608)? There are so many open source projects that use Bugzilla for bug tracking and yet a user wanting to report a bug will have to register on each of those. I bet two from three users just can’t be bothered to register for the sake of reporting a single bug with the thought “Surely someone else will report it very soon”. Developers lose and users lose. What about OpenID authenticated pick-your-version-control-system-name commits? There seem to be plugins to enable OpenID in Trac, MediaWiki and others, so why don’t people install those? Come one people, let’s embrace the technology and make our life easier! The more people that have OpenIDs the more demand on the web sites to embrace it. Also there is a large number of people that probably don’t have a clue what OpenID is, but have one for example AOL/AIM users, Yahoo! users, etc. I am waiting for the day when I will be able to login in let’s say Amazon with my OpenID…