making OpenID suck less

Yesterday was released Drupal 7.9 which includes 3 critical fixes for Openid plus one normal fix.

• #575810: OpenID discovery spec violation - follow redirects.
• #1076366: OpenID discovery spec violation - fragments are removed from claimed id
• #1120290: Provide transition for accounts with incompletely stored OpenIDs
• #160163: Login with OpenID link has mis-encoding of #

Hey there, I'm wojtha, fresh co-maintainer for the OpenID module.

Now I'm trying to fix the critical bugs of the OpenID in the D6 and D7. But I'm not an expert in this area, I dove to the OpenID standard 5 months ago for the first time so any help will be appreciated. Now I'm focused on my personal issues with the OpenID, trying to get following three and several connected issues to the next Drupal 7.x release:

the single-signon options for mere-Drupal-mortals seem to be pretty thin, which is rather suprizing considering the flagship Drupal Gardens uses OpenID

I am looking at setting-up a network of sites within Aegir hosting and I've been spending a lot of time spinning my wheels with Bakery and OpenID type "solutions" - I've been annoying people and arguing and basically struggling through up the learning curve