[Sugar-devel] Single sign-on for Sugar Labs resources

[James Cameron]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 01:10:22AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> This is an invitation to broad discussion and pointing out possible
> down sides of this decision (in addition to [1]).

Costs and risks not mentioned in [1] might include:

* annoying everybody with extra effort, thus creating a temporary
barrier to contributions,

* a single point of failure, when it fails, none of the resources can be
used,

* complexity of solution may lead to longer time before service is
restored,

* reduced number of engineers with sufficient understanding to be able
to fix the service when it breaks,

... and that these risks were not identified previously suggests to me
that not enough consensus has been reached, and that the decision to
proceed is hasty.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/