Jimmy Wales wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
Anyway, the code for SUL was written and released in 1.4, the only thing missing is a conversion script and a sysadmin brave enough to apply it. So there's no need to tie it to the release cycle. The email authentication problem can be solved in some other way, such as marking all existing email addresses authenticated.
If my taking the heat for applying it will be helpful, then once there is a conversion script and someone feels it is probably ready to run, then I am happy to say "Let's run it now" so that if/when people's heads explode I can be the one to blame.
I'm not sure what Tim is referring to.
There's support for using a shared user table for multiple wikis; that can't be used for our sites as it came two years or so too late. Accounts are already established separately on each wiki which can't be automatically resolved in a clean way, so this has never been an option.
There's support via the AuthPlugin interface for a global account system as an overlay, but we don't yet have a suitable infrastructure for it to plug in to or a migration interface (which would be user-driven, allowing them to resolve most conflicting accounts without intervention from sysadmins).
So no, we don't have something that can just be run and magically make things happen unless somebody's been hiding it.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)