To yours and Luke's question: the basic purpose here is to have one convenient place where people can *check out* OpenID libraries. OpenIDEnabled.com historically served that purpose, but it's hard to manage access and to maintain the site — and it's not well integrated with the OpenID.net site. Moving to Google Code wouldn't necessarily bring about tighter integration with OpenID.net, but at maintaining the site wouldn't require additional resources (the design of OpenIDEnabled.com leaves something to be desired, not to mention the conflict created by the RPX ads on the site — though of course we appreciated Janrain's hosting and contributions to the libraries!).
Furthermore, rather than having all the work go on on the Google Code site, people could pick and choose where to host their projects, but we would simply provide a checkout from the Google Code site, again, making it easy to stay up to date with the latest libraries. This is the model that I've used with the OAuth libraries and it seems to have worked out okay: http://oauth.googlecode.com and http://oauth.net/code Does that make this clearer? I'm not interested in forcing people to use Google Code to work on the libraries, but I do want one consistent, easy to maintain place to get the libraries, where it's also possible to delegate access to various community members to help update and maintain the content. Chris On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Johannes Ernst <[email protected]> wrote: > Could you clarify just what you mean when you say "the OpenID libraries". > Last time I checked there were many such libraries from many projects / > individuals / companies. Do you mean all of them should migrate to Google > code?!? > On May 29, 2009, at 12:25, Chris Messina wrote: > > We've batted around the idea of moving the OpenID libraries to Google Code > for some time [1] and I'd like to make a motion to make this happen. > My goals are to: > > 1. increase the visibility of and convenience of access to the OpenID > libraries > 2. increase activity and community involvement in contributions to the > OpenID libraries > 3. make use of more collaboration-friendly source control systems > (GitHub can be used as a feeder to the mainline Google Code repo) > 4. make sure that we have a transparent mechanism for recording and > assigning bugs (OpenIDEnabled.com's trac setup returns a 404 for the login > page: http://trac.openidenabled.com/trac/login, and an account is > required to submit new tickets) > 5. move away from darcs for simply checking out copies of the libraries > 6. etc. > > So, this motion boils down to granting Google the right to use the OpenID > trademark on the Google Code project. > > If this motion passes, Dewitt will unlock the project and assign myself, > Dave Recordon, Will Norris, Luke Shepard and Brian Ellin as the initial > project admins. > > I will commit to migrating the content on OpenIDEnabled.com to either the > Google Code wiki or the OpenID wiki itself. > > So, with that, I look forward to your +1's. > > Chris > > [1] http://openid.net/pipermail/board/2009-March/001964.html > > -- > Chris Messina > Open Web Advocate > > Website: http://factoryjoe.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/chrismessina > Facebook: http://facebook.com/chrismessina > > Diso Project: http://diso-project.org > OpenID Foundation: http://openid.net > > This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board > > > Johannes Ernst > NetMesh Inc. > > http://netmesh.info/jernst > > > > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board > > -- Chris Messina Open Web Advocate Website: http://factoryjoe.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/chrismessina Facebook: http://facebook.com/chrismessina Diso Project: http://diso-project.org OpenID Foundation: http://openid.net This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private
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