SourceForge.net

Hey! So I’ll just blurt it out: we’ve joined the OpenID Foundation! But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start from the beginning.

Last week, we announced that SourceForge.net is now supporting OpenID for logins. Well, people seem to be using it, and things are going very smoothly. In the past week, we’ve had over 1,200 users who have associated their accounts with OpenID identities, with very few support issues logged.

We had no major hiccups during our rollout, and we’re already planning our next batch of the improvements you’re asking for (which, incidentally, include support for Yadis/XRDS and a new approach towards SVN/CVS/shell passwords.) All in all, it’s been just about the smoothest implementation I can remember.

I’m really happy that people are using it, but I’m not necessarily surprised - especially since it was one of the most requested features in our Suggestion Box! That, along with the various attention we received in the blogosphere, really underscores the importance of OpenID in our modern, open Internet.

The way I see it, SourceForge has a responsibility to our community to support the growth of open technologies and frameworks like OpenID. To that end, we’ve been contributing parts of our OpenID work to the Zend Framework.

Which brings me back to where I started: SourceForge has just joined the OpenID Foundation! We look forward to promoting OpenID in interesting and creative ways in the years to come. OpenID, this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

I’m happy to announce we’re launching support for OpenID!

OpenID is getting tremendous traction and we’re happy to be jumping into it. it’s bringing us back in touch with fresh web (2.0) technology. as a decentralized open-source standard, it’s a perfect fit for us - it allows us to streamline more user interaction and participation with our site, and hopefully more for the whole OSS community.

we’ve spent the past couple weeks on it - integrating the Zend Framework OpenID component into our site code. we like the framework as a whole and I personally hope to use more of it in the future. we’ve been happy to participate, as a company, in the ZF project and have already submitted reports of, and patches for, some OpenID issues and enhancements.

while I’m giving shout-outs, I have to thanks the SF staff who worked on it - especially Paul Huff, Patrick Mee, John Hoffmann, Adam Voigt, Kathi Hutchings, and Wes Moran for tolerating my squawking while they did the productive work over the last few weeks. and Lisa and Ross have really helped me get out of my shell to tell the community about it.

we’re really hoping OpenID is good for our users, and we’re eager to have everyone try it out and give us feedback - both good and bad - here in our community forums, or out in the blogosphere, or wherever. so, go log in with your OpenID already! and learn more about our implementation on our OpenID site doc page.