On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Greg Grossmeier <g...@wikimedia.org>wrote:
> <quote name="maiki" date="2013-02-22" time="12:17:25 -0800"> > > Is this up for discussion, or are we at the point of planning > > deployment? It isn't apparent to me why any WMF site would be an OpenID > > provider. > > To phrase this differently: > > Do you more prefer that WMF sites consume OpenIDs instead of (or in > addition to) providing them? > > This isn't really a matter of having one or the other. As Marc has mentioned, we need some non-hacky form of authentication for bots, tools, out-of-cluster applications, and non-mediawiki applications. OpenID as a consumer is a more difficult task for a number of reasons. I like to tackle problems one at a time and making a provider is an easy first step. - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
