-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/05/2013 03:52 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
I think Persona is just too new to see it around much yet. Or maybe Mozilla needs better PR.
The Persona site touts: "Signing in using Persona requires only a valid email address; allowing you to provide personal information on as-needed basis, when and where you think it’s appropriate."
They clearly need a better example site. They chose something called Voost. Sure enough, all I needed to enter was my Gmail address. That got me signed in, but then Voost asked me for a bunch of other personal information (name, gender, birthdate, etc), and wouldn't let me go any farther without that. :-/
As sith OpenID, the key element to Persona is SSO: you can authenticate without needing to create / remember passwords for every site you visit. Whether a given site chooses to authroize an authenticated-but-otherwise-unknown user to do anything meaningful is logically distinct. +1 for supporting Persona as an alternative to OpenID on all *.python.org servers. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tseaver@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlIo6ecACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6gOwCgrIokRYnddNaNVIVPoY/M4d0k kKcAni6hxXQE4T4QMij3bQHAJwBFX1uW =9ZJP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----