Comment 10 for bug 210943

There are no blockers to this. It has already been discussed with higher powers, and it is just another authentication mechanism. We just have to spec and code it. This means registration screens for creating your account using OpenID for authentication instead of (or in addition to) a password, and the authentication for Launchpad itself.

Like many OpenID consumers, you will still need to enter additional metadata like your email address when you sign up if your OpenID provider does not provide it to us, and the email address will need to be validated unless we feel we can trust a particular OpenID provider (for example, validation of a yahoo.com email address provided by the yahoo.com OpenID provider would probably serve little purpose except confirming that Launchpad emails are getting past spam filters).