http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/94224
Revision: 94224
Author: neilk
Date: 2011-08-11 02:28:39 +0000 (Thu, 11 Aug 2011)
Log Message:
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caveats in readme
Modified Paths:
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branches/extensions-realtime/IdentityApi/README
Modified: branches/extensions-realtime/IdentityApi/README
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--- branches/extensions-realtime/IdentityApi/README 2011-08-11 02:25:41 UTC
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+++ branches/extensions-realtime/IdentityApi/README 2011-08-11 02:28:39 UTC
(rev 94224)
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+== Notes ==
+
This extension is experimental. It should not be used by anyone in a
production environment.
The purpose of this extension is to act as a sort of identity helper for other
non-MediaWiki services that might be
@@ -6,6 +8,16 @@
This implementation is based on Wikia's Chat module AJAX functions[1], but
tries to be more general.
+== Caveat ==
+
+This entire extension might be a bad idea, if there is an easier way to do all
this with OpenID. It's not clear to me
+yet if we can get something as seamless with OpenID, as easily. At least this
is a basis for the kind of communications that
+OpenID will need, we can shoehorn this into the OpenID extension later.
+
+The only reason I'm pushing forward with this now is that we need SOME sort of
service to go forward with etherpad and chat
+experiements.
+
+
-- Neil Kandalgaonkar <[email protected]> 10 Aug 2011
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