Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] How to support wireshark w/o having an OpenID
From: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 18:51:43 +0200
On 08/04/2014 05:33 PM, Graham Bloice wrote:
> On 4 August 2014 16:25, Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx
> <mailto:toralf.foerster@xxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     I developer pointed me to http://code.wireshark.org/review - but I
>     do not have an OpenID nor I have an account listed here :
>     http://openid.net/get-an-openid/ And I do not own a home page.
> 
>     Any chance to participate in WS under this circumstances ?
> 
>     P.S.: I'm not subscribed, please Cc: me.
> 
> 
> This did come up before the move to Gerrit, see the mails starting
> here: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201401/msg00004.html
> 
> I'm not sure what the outcome was for Joerg though, but he does use Gerrit.
> 
> -- 
> Graham Bloice
Thx Graham


On 04/08/14 11:37, Kevin Cox wrote:
>I think the solution is to sign up for an account that proved OpenID
>somewhere.  I don't know if you are trying to avoid it or not but there
>are countless free services.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.


My question is rather, whether it is mandatory to register at one of the big IT players or if an email address would be sufficient.

-- 
Toralf