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.
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
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