On Sep 6, 2013, at 1:22 PM, Dan Callahan <dcalla...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 9/5/13 12:31 PM, Jesus Cea wrote: >> I have big hopes for Mozilla Persona, looking forward >> Python infrastructure support :). > > Hi, I'm the project lead on Persona signin, and I spoke at PyCon earlier this > year regarding why and how Mozilla is building Persona. If you'd like some > more background, that video [0] is worth a look. > > Let's pull this discussion up a level: > > It sounds like many people (Jesus, Donald, Toshio, Barry, Tres, Dirkjan, > etc.) are interested in seeing Persona on Python.org properties, and most of > the objections coming from a place of "Persona hasn't gone viral, what if > this is wasted effort?" > > We can tackle that from two angles: > > 1. Dirkjan and I are willing to do the work to make this happen if someone > from python-devel is willing to guide us through the contributor process for > these systems. FWIW I'm a maintainer of PyPI and I do plan on enabling Persona there. Mostly blocked because I want to focus my PyPI efforts on the "next gen" code base instead. > > 2. There's a seamless migration path away from Persona if we fail: fall back > to the pre-existing traditional email/password system using the same email > addresses that Persona had previously been in charge of verifying. > > So let's do this. The open web deserves better than just Google+, Facebook, > or Passwords, and visible support from the Python community would be a huge > step toward answering the chicken-and-egg objections raised in this thread. > > At your service, > -Callahad > > PS: Freeform OpenID has utterly failed as a user-empowering authentication > system, and the protocol itself is rapidly being supplanted by > vendor-specific OAuth[1] systems. If we want to ensure that "you *can* (not > *must*) use free and open services to access our resources," then we must > provide an option to use something akin to Persona. > > [0]: http://pyvideo.org/video/1764 > > [1]: "Google's OpenID service is being replaced by Login with OAuth 2.0." > https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/GettingStarted > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/donald%40stufft.io ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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