On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Jon Davis <[email protected]> wrote: >> As for being an OpenID provider... only one major thought: Having this >> Foundation be a provider would be a lot of additional server load (It is >> 100% non-cacheable) without any benefit to the main goal of providing free >> information. > > I imagine the load wouldn't be a big deal. An OpenID server is pretty > simple, no? >
Yeah. I couldn't imagine it adding much load. >> The biggest immediate benefit to becoming a provider is for >> non-MediaWiki based apps that the foundation uses. If we become a >> provider, our Wordpress, Bugzilla, Ideatorrent, etc. apps don't need >> to have separate username/password databases. > > Assuming all of these actually support OpenID as consumers, without > annoying limitations. Do they? > Bugzilla's looks like it has limitations, but the others have consumer support without limitations as far as I can see. We'd likely want to modify them slightly, so that we can have a simple button like "log in with your Wikimedia account". Respectfully, Ryan Lane _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
