git.typo3.org

Please remove the login process for the RSS feeds.
At least Outlook does not support HTTP auth for RSS.

Thx.

About RSS feeds for git commits:

The http://git.typo3.org is anonymous read-only already, so the RSS feed should be available without authentication. E.g.:

• RSS for commits to "master" branch:
  http://git.typo3.org/TYPO3v4/Core.git?a=rss;h=refs/heads/master

• RSS for commits to "TYPO3_4-5" branch:
  http://git.typo3.org/TYPO3v4/Core.git?a=rss;h=refs/heads/TYPO3_4-5

About RSS feeds for Gerrit reviews: I cannot even find a RSS feed for this. Are you sure?

+1 for anonymous gerrit access.

FYI: There's also an Atom feed of latest commits:
http://git.typo3.org/TYPO3v4/Core.git?a=atom;h=refs/heads/master

As Xavier also wrote in his release minutes:
I think that being unable to see the patches and discussions in Gerrit, if you are not logged in, is a main reason for the low activity there.
Without logging in you can currently neither see pending patches, neither review a patch, nor discuss it.
That all is no longer as public as it was on the Core List, so that people do not see all this.

I feel that this prevents progress for the project as such.

Having anonymous read access would be really important.

@ Karsten: The guys from Eclipse have a Gerrit installation with anonymous read access (without http basic auth).
See http://egit.eclipse.org/
Maybe someone of them is able to help us?

If it would be easy it would be there already. We are using http basic auth, in combination with SSO onto typo3.org. Also according to the answer from the ML it should work it just doesn't. :-< I have also just spent a couple of hours on trying to set it up: unfortunatly I failed as much as Karsten previously.

[update] egit.eclipse.org most likely uses LDAP authentication. With LDAP and OPENID you get nicely working login/logout forms. none of these unfortunatly seem possible right away for us currently.

The problem with http basic auth is that it just protects all calls to the directory. Can that be modified somehow?
But even if it could: I read that - if you use http basic auth - Gerrit assumes that the user, who calls a Gerrit page, is already logged in.
So if I understand it correctly, the consequence is, that viewing pages in Gerrit anonymously is just not possible, as long as you use http auth.

Message from myself:

When someone "cancels" the basic authentication dialog, we would like him/her to be redirected to http://wiki.typo3.org/Gerrit, we will update the page to provide useful information such as how to get a typo3.org username.

Answer from Karsten;

No, I guess this is not possible. Either the webserver sees an authentication header and all is fine, or it does not and asks for credentials. Basic authentication in HTTP only knows those two states. There is no 'cancel' really, and on top of that making such a redirect would mean hacking Gerrit.

Sorry, but I don't see the problem. Basically what is asked is to put such a line in the Apache configuration:

ErrorDocument 403 http://wiki.typo3.org/Gerrit

It should work, I guess?

Xavier Perseguers wrote:

Sorry, but I don't see the problem. Basically what is asked is to put such a line in the Apache configuration:

Oh. That easy. Well, no problem. Almost. The code must be 401, and for that the use of a full URL is not possible. Using a local file that redirects to the wiki redirects right away, not even asking for the credentials. Provide me with some lines of text you'd like to see on a "cancel page" and I'll try again, people will have to read and then klick a link, should also be ok.

I am still digging into this and finally have anonymous setup working in my local installation :->. I'll rework my (very few lines) patch and recheck with gerrit ML. It seems doable in the near future.

good news! thanks for that!

Peter Niederlag wrote:

It seems doable in the near future.

Awesome!

Peter Niederlag wrote:

It seems doable in the near future.

Peter, that is great! :-)

Yes, do it! It would rock'n'roll!

Peter Niederlag wrote:

OK, finally rolled out on https://review.typo3.org

I just was confused when I did not find my projects and my dashboard in Gerrit anymore, when suddenly I realized that I still was not logged in. :-)

It is great, that this is working now!
Thanks, Peter!