[Python-Dev] Invitation to try out open source code review tool

[Joe Smith]

"Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote in message 
news:ca471dc20805040936nf06de9dk77f37433254b0495 at mail.gmail.com...
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
>>  Personally, I would consider the following sufficient:
>>
>>  1) people who have authenticated themselves against the underlying VCS 
>> (i.e.
>>  project members) may post public comments and comment on other comments
>
> Tell me how to authenticate against a SVN project using HTTP only.
>

Hmm... Is there a good reason not to just migrate over to OpenID?
For one thing, surely an OpenID provider could exist that just authenticates 
a username against an SVN account. Then many people already have a Yahoo 
account or AOL screenname. On the downside, the OpenID system will likely 
not be terribly effective at avoiding spam in the long run, as spammers 
register accounts at providers (especially those without or with weak 
Captchas). On the otherhand, there are already reports of Spammers mass 
signing-up for Google accounts, so it may not be that different in the long 
run anyway.