On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
<quote name="maiki"
date="2013-02-22" time="12:17:25 -0800">
Is this up for discussion, or are we at the point
of planning
deployment? It isn't apparent to me why any WMF site would be an OpenID
provider.
To phrase this differently:
Do you more prefer that WMF sites consume OpenIDs instead of (or in
addition to) providing them?
This isn't really a matter of having one or the other. As Marc has
mentioned, we need some non-hacky form of authentication for bots, tools,
out-of-cluster applications, and non-mediawiki applications.
OpenID as a consumer is a more difficult task for a number of reasons. I
like to tackle problems one at a time and making a provider is an easy
first step.
- Ryan