Google shuts down the OpenID 2.0 on April 20, 2015

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On 11/11/14 15:07, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 3:43 PM, David Ostrovsky <d.ostrovsky at gmx.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > Just to inform you, that Google shuts down the OpenID 2.0
>> > service on April 20, 2015, as explained in this announcement [1].
>> >
>> > I know that some folks use it for Gerrit authentication.
> Does github has a openid 2.0 service ? does it work with gerrit ?
> What is the replacement that the gerrit project plan to use
> (after all a lot of the project is google-centric no ? )
> 
>> > I think that the most promising alternative would be to set up OpenID
>> > service on TDF infrastructure.
> Do you know how to do that ?
> But more to the point, what is the benefit of having a openid provider
> for _one_ service...

I was thinking along those lines...

Would there be any interest amongst other Libre Software projects in
maintaining a shared OpenID infrastructure?

Cheers,
Wol