Hey, I'm not much well-versed with Persona or FxAccounts. But here's my humble opinions on what I think about this discussion happening.
If we were to move everything that profiles a user to FxAccounts, I think Persona would be dead very soon. I don't see any use of Persona if everything that profiles the user is going to be stored on their FxAccount. But still, I think moving to Firefox Accounts would be a much better option right now, since it enables Sync and other profiling services already. It's just website integration that is missing that Persona takes care of (as far as I've known Persona) as of now. So moving that one last piece to FxAccounts would mean many things : 1. Building a whole new social system for FxAccounts. 2. Integrating all the services from Persona. But I think this would be a good idea. Let me elaborate one scenario that just popped into my mind right now as I was drafting this mail : If I'm using FxAccounts that I have all my profile data synced - my passwords, persona data (websites that have used my Persona to log in). This would mean that my browsing experience is seamless as I browse through the web. A master password (we already have that for the password vault now) could be used to unlock the profile for increased / elevated security. Now, that sounds like a lot like signing in to your google account on Google Chrome that allows you to log in seamlessly on all your apps that use your google account to log-in. Though making a complete move to FxAccounts is a good, feasible and viable option (though I can't determine the amount of technical effort this would require to be implemented), that would also mean the death of Persona as we know it today. ~ shine On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: > Moving folks in cc to Bcc and keeping the ML > > Le 24/11/14 20:26, Chris Karlof a écrit : > [..] > >> 2- will fxa-profile be Mozillian's backend for profile data ? > > I’m not sure, but migrating Mozillans.org data to FxA would be a serious > effort, so we should understand the value prop there. > > I am not fully understanding the scope of fxa-profile - according to > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_Accounts#Firefox_Accounts_user_data > it might even store phone numbers. > > So it sounded like a phonebook/directory of users to me. Which is > exactly what Mozillians.org is (a subset of a wider users directory + > some social feats) > > > [..] > > There’s currently not much data in the profile server, and only avatars > are “editable”. We provide UI for changing your avatar. There is no way to > search for users by email, primarily because 1) it's is a potential privacy > leak, and 2) it hasn’t been prioritized. > ok. for 1) are you implying that Fxa profile data will be readable only > by the owner of the data ? (e.g. I can get my own data and that's it) > > Cheers > Tarek > > > > > > > -chris > > > > > >> So on my side here's what I think for now: > >> > >> - a public key attached to an fxa profile is what I consider to be a > >> "core" data that should belong there > >> - imho, mozillians.org is a perfect place to experiment social features > >> - it's the first circle of mozilla fans that can help us experiment with > >> a social feature before it hits a wider audience > >> - a public key service is the basis for any privacy-aware social feature > >> like sharing files > >> - fxa-attached keys can be stored anywhere, so having them in > >> mozillians.org makes sense for now > >> > >> Cheers > >> Tarek > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > Dev-fxacct mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct >
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