[fab] OpenID: an actually distributed identity system

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 22:56 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:01:50AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 08:41 -0400, Michael Tiemann wrote:
> > > I saw OpenID ( http://openid.net/ ) presented and demonstrated at
> > > EuroOSCON last week--it looked really cool.  My reason for writing this
> > > morning is because on another list (grass-dev at grass.itc.it) developers
> > > are bemoaning the problem of (1) spam in their bugtracker, and (2) their
> > > desire to keep the bugtracker open and not require that users sign up
> > > for an account before using the system.
> > > 
> > > I understand there is a similar question being discussed about just how
> > > open to make the Fedora Wiki (not the CVS repository, but the Wiki).
> > > 
> > > I, too, hate the fact that I have to manage so many identities on the
> > > web, and I, too, wish there were a decent single sign-on for me to use
> > > with my favorite websites.  I'd like to suggest OpenID as a possible
> > > candidate for solving that problem and see whether enough people on this
> > > list agree to push it into the Fedora infrastructure.
> > 
> > - moinmoin has been 'openid enabled' - but only in 1.5.X - not the
> > version we're using right now - 1.3.X. We should be able to move to it -
> > but it will be an involved process, I'm sure. Not the least of which is
> > getting all the people to now create openid accounts. And this says
> > nothing of the need for the CLA that we require.
> > 
> > - mailman - it has been openid enabled but not in the upstream release.
> > Patches are available.
> > 
> > - bugzilla appears to be completely out in the cold which means there
> > would be a need for someone to do the programming and, theoretically,
> > submitting the patches upstream.
> 
> Patches for Plone are set to be released by the end of October at
> their development conference.
> 

Do we actually USE plone for anything? B/c I'll be damned if I can
figure out when we're using it. :)

-sv