Account creation user experience/Engineering/HTMLForm
E3 has Userlogin ready to soft-launch and Create account nearly ready, but using the crufty QuickTemplate system. We're considering moving to HTMLForm.
Agora/Engineering#Changing_HTMLForm has the engineering challenges
Deployment issues
[edit]If we deploy Tyler's change Search Gerrit for xxx there's a big bang where login changes even if you don't pass ?useAgora=1
- Do we soft-launch the new login form alongside the existing template?
- Do we launch login with HTMLForm with an option to useAgora?
Tyler only changed Login, there isn't an HTMLForm version of Create account.
Reasons to move to HTMLForm
[edit]- for consistency we want all forms to move to Agora, and most forms are made with HTMLForm. So someone will eventually do it anyway.
- does things for us (implements CSRF? with Tyler's patch, does throttling)
- engineering cred, acknowledge Tyler's work
Reasons not to
[edit]Greater risks, fixing core doesn't "move the needle", delay.
Getting Agora out becomes tied to getting HTMLForm changes approved.
E3 has no plans to move other forms to Agora.
Alternative
[edit]- Soft-launch current login and create account changes (that use QuickTemplate)
- Work to switch some existing high-value form made with HTMLForm to Agora style.
- Merge Tyler's login using HTMLForm together with the changes for the Agora form to use it.
But there are no great options, and the login form changes twice.