What was your better idea by the time a solution had to be implemented? Or what is your better idea today?

The situation in real terms is: a forum existed with plenty of posts and users, and a bugzilla existed also with plenty of reorts and users. Your options are:

- Put the tools under the same roof first and leave the complex user integration for later (the option chosen).

- Keep the forum and start blank with a new integrated bugzilla (you duplicate bugzillas).

- Keep the bugzilla and start blank with a new integrated forum (you duplicate forums).

- Don't merge anything until the SSO has been sorted out (so far there have been other priorities like speeding up servers, and SSO in maemo.org is a tough one. Anybody can join the maemo.org development sprints and lobby for their preferred features)


If someone at talk.maemo.org wants to be involved, the barrier is registering to maemo.org and adding your Talk profile URL to your maemo.org URL. It takes 2 mins = small barrier. If someone doesn't want to invest that time fine, but then the motivations are closer to not willing to be involved in the whole maemo.org the council represents. And that is fine too. You can be a great Maemo contributor without ever leave talk.maemo.org (and you volt are a good proof).

Another way to look at this is: if ITT would have stayed apart as a forum then you wouldn't have been involved in any maemo.org council election either.

fwiw I think Wikipedia still requires separate registration for each language and service, even if all of them are based on the same MediaWiki tool. And look how big that community has grown without making a big fuzz of this small barrier.