On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Jon Davis
<wiki(a)konsoletek.com> wrote:
As for being an OpenID provider... only one major
thought: Having this
Foundation be a provider would be a lot of additional server load (It is
100% non-cacheable) without any benefit to the main goal of providing free
information.
I imagine the load wouldn't be a big deal. An OpenID server is pretty
simple, no?
Yeah. I couldn't imagine it adding much load.
The biggest
immediate benefit to becoming a provider is for
non-MediaWiki based apps that the foundation uses. If we become a
provider, our Wordpress, Bugzilla, Ideatorrent, etc. apps don't need
to have separate username/password databases.
Assuming all of these actually support OpenID as consumers, without
annoying limitations. Do they?
Bugzilla's looks like it has limitations, but the others have consumer
support without limitations as far as I can see. We'd likely want to
modify them slightly, so that we can have a simple button like "log in
with your Wikimedia account".
Respectfully,
Ryan Lane