[ckan-dev] OpenID and the CKAN future

Mon Jul 9 13:27:30 UTC 2012

On 9 July 2012 13:39, Toby Dacre <toby.okfn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Following on from Salman's OpenID bug post on the list and some irc chatting
> with Ross & Sean.
>
> Where do we want to go with this?  The last time I was involved in this
> debate (a few months back) it sounded like we where definitely removing
> support for openID and all that was preventing this was migrating users to
> 'normal' accounts.  If I recall correctly the openID stuff was a bit broken
> eg around google logins etc. but as it was being killed there was no
> incentive to fix due to the complexity/time needed.
>
> As I see it we should either bite the bullet and kill openID or we should
> make it work nicely.

I am a strong +1 on killing it.

> Although personally I have never trusted OpenID, as I believe it is
> phishable I can see it being of benefit to others and anything to reduce the
> number of logins in the cloud based crazyness of todays interweb has its
> advantages.  So I can see it's value to people other than myself.  In a
> previous life using app engine the google account tie-in sometimes made life
> simpler - although multiple google accounts do not seem to be supported
> outside google/paid gmail - but that's another story.
>
> Anyhow if we do keep the openID stuff (and maybe even if we kill that) We
> should probably consider such evils as facebook/twitter integration - again
> being a believer in the asocial-web this is not for me but it could well be
> beneficial for those that enjoy such things and also is likely a much larger
> userbase than openID etc

This is far more useful than OpenID. However, we can keep the
discussions separate.

> So what's the feelings of the ckan crew (and users) to this?  Do we kill /
> fix / extend?  There is also the whole repoze.who stuff to which I'd really
> like to remove if we can.

I'm a strong +1 on removal. If we didn't mark as deprecated in 1.7 I
suggest we do so now.

Rufus

> cheers
> toby
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