kovid, this has been brought up while we were beta testing the platform. There are two reasons why this doesn't seem to work for our purposes:
- The Hub is installed isolated on another server. We'd like to add security by not giving it access to the main MobileRead server in case one of the services (SVN, Trac, etc.) gets broken into.
- All services (Trac, SVN, FTP) on the Hub use the same credentials you use to register there. It'd be very difficult to make all of these services work for authentication with the MobileRead database.
Since I am also one of those who despise user registrations, I tried to make the registration process on the Hub as easy as possible. All you have to do is go to the
register form and enter your username and password once. After that you can login to any installed project trac, your SVN(s) and FTP(s).