Announcing Firefox Accounts in Mozilla IAM (cross post)

[r_Up2mI1KfXvmSMPkEfhC6eg]

Announcing Firefox Accounts in Mozilla IAM

tl;dr We’ve added Firefox Accounts support to the Mozilla IAM login! Longer Version With the arrival of two-step authentication for Firefox Accounts, the IAM Project extends its list of authentication providers accordingly. This step provides a convenient and safe login option to our Contributors. It enables broader participation on popular Mozilla sites such as Taskcluster, Discourse, Common Voice (coming soon) and many more.

[david_ross]

OMG I actually squealed with excitement on reading this!!

In case anyone is having trouble, please keep in mind that your Mozillians account is the ‘source of truth’. So to connect the Firefox Account to all your Mozilla assets, you should sign-in via Firefox Accounts in Mozillians FIRST. If you attempt to sign-in to a Mozilla asset (like Slack or here in Discourse) via the Firefox Account without this important step, you will be presented with an authorization error.

[david_ross]

PS: please please please consider adding it to MDN. GH is only method right now and that’s really rubbish for dev perception of ‘Mozilla provides alternatives’.

[r_Up2mI1KfXvmSMPkEfhC6eg]

Hi @david_ross, thanks for linking threads.

@atopal (MDN product manager) has to balance a number of conflicting priorities. He describes this here:

Alternatives to Github for Authentication

Thanks for starting the discussion here. We also discussed it briefly in our dev meeting earlier today. At this point we have no plans to integrate other authentication systems. It’s not clear that the added overhead and complexity stands in any relation to the perceived benefit. It’ also partially motivated by our integration with Github that we’d like to explore further this year and next. Adding other authentication methods would make that more complicated, so we’d need a compelling reason to…

In the short run we will probably not see Firefox Accounts authentication on MDN. Kadir and I talk about it frequently. We will provide an update if things change. Kadir and the MDN Team are currently very busy working towards the top-level objective, to grow developer reach and engagement.

Best regards,
Henrik

[sheppy (Eric Shepherd)]

As MDN staff, I badly want to see this feature as well, despite knowing it is outside the current scope of our priorities. I will continue to hope, though, that once we achieve notable progress in the current target areas, we can revisit this.

Sheppy