On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 05:29:07PM -0400, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
I don't want my choice to be log into Facebook or manage a slew of passwords.
The last part is unavoidable. I regularly login to LiveJournal, Twitter, SourceForge, BitBucket, Gitorious, GitHub and to hundreds of other sites -- blogs, torrents, web shops. I already manage hundreds of passwords. OpenID promised to save me from that and failed. Do you think Persona would succeed in this regard (saved me from managing all those passwords)? And if not -- what are the benefits? I already manage hundreds of passwords -- two or three additional passwords for bugs.python.org, wiki.python.org and so on don't make the situation worse. IMO the very idea of single sign-on in the open web is meaningless.
But I'm not volunteering to do the work, so I don't get to decide. I'm just stating that I think our principle should be that you *can* (not *must*) use free and open services to access our resources.
Well, I can only use services that are available, not those that are promised. If python.org grows support for Persona -- who will be my provider and for what price? I am not going to install and manage additional software on my servers -- I don't want to be my own provider, I have enough job already. Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ phd@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.