Chris,

Are you referring to the libraries themselves or the WIKI pages we host 
pointing to those distributions?

I know Libraries like openID4java are still actively maintained and in that 
case officially part of a number of Eclipse projects.

John B.
On 2011-01-20, at 12:39 PM, Dick Hardt wrote:

> Chris
> 
> Hearing that the libraries are falling by the wayside indicates a lack of 
> interest in OpenID to me. 
> 
> Having paid to build a number of the libraries, it is disappointing that this 
> is the current state (assuming your analysis is correct).
> 
> As I stated a number of times, I think OpenID 2.0 is the wrong product for 
> the market and the Foundation may need to bite the bullet to move on to 
> something that truly solves a broad set of customers.
> 
> -- Dick
> 
> On 2011-01-19, at 6:40 PM, Chris Messina wrote:
> 
>> It has come to my attention that the maintenance of the OpenID libraries has 
>> fallen by the wayside in the past year. Since OpenID 2.0 is still the de 
>> facto latest version, I believe it is up to the foundation to make sure that 
>> we're keeping the existing libraries up to date.
>> 
>> Specifically, since our code is hosted on GitHub, there have been several 
>> forks and subsequent pull requests posted to the PHP library:
>> 
>> https://github.com/openid/php-openid
>> 
>> Will Norris is reviewing these changes but I think this raises an important 
>> issue that we've neglected for some time — making the developer experience 
>> of integrating OpenID (beyond using an off-the-shelf solution like Janrain 
>> Engage) adequate. To that end, making sure that the libraries are open for 
>> improvements, and that we respond to pull requests in a timely fashion 
>> should be something that we prioritize in 2011.
>> 
>> If it's unclear who the current maintainers or owners are for the libraries, 
>> that's something we should absolutely address.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> -- 
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