If you're asking for reasons not to do this: - AppEngine has a built-in API for dealing with Google Accounts, but not for OpenID
- Apparently OpenID requires some crypto that would be slow without additional API support - I'm not personally familiar with OpenID None of these seem insurmountable, so now that it's open source, I'm looking forward to contributions. --Guido On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Guido van Rossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Personally, I would consider the following sufficient: > > > > > > 1) people who have authenticated themselves against the underlying VCS > (i.e. > > > project members) may post public comments and comment on other comments > > > > > > > Tell me how to authenticate against a SVN project using HTTP only. > > > > > > Hmm... Is there a good reason not to just migrate over to OpenID? > For one thing, surely an OpenID provider could exist that just > authenticates a username against an SVN account. Then many people already > have a Yahoo account or AOL screenname. On the downside, the OpenID system > will likely not be terribly effective at avoiding spam in the long run, as > spammers register accounts at providers (especially those without or with > weak Captchas). On the otherhand, there are already reports of Spammers mass > signing-up for Google accounts, so it may not be that different in the long > run anyway. > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
