[Mailman-Developers] Dropping Persona

Simon Hanna writes:

I propose using the django authentication system by default and making it easy for people to add other authentication methods.

I think we should provide social auth (OAuth2 or whatever Google and Yahoo! do) by default. At least as I recall the discussion at the sprints a couple years ago, we picked Persona because a Mozilla person gave us a lot of help with the implementation, but we really wanted social auth because users demand it and because it allows us to get out of the business of storing and securing passwords.