Should we allow anonymous users to pull from Zanata?

[Sean Flanigan]

On 2014-07-25 17:04, Ding Yi Chen wrote:
> At this stage, you need to register to be able to pull.
> In other words, you need to provide zanata APIKEY in order to pull
> or use FAS to login and download translation.
> 
> However, if allow anonymous to pull, it will benefit:
> 1. automatic build scripts: so developers can put their build scripts to public git.
> 2. Multilingual dictionary projects: so they can query zanata.

Why can't they use API keys?


> Cons:
> We are not able to track the usage, therefore cannot allocate resource accordingly.

That's a big drawback.  We don't want to open the server to denial of
service attacks.  Zanata's rate limiting is tied to API keys.

> 
> Any thoughts? 
> 


-- 
Sean Flanigan

Senior Software Engineer
Engineering - Internationalisation
Red Hat

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