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

[Guido van Rossum]

If you're asking for reasons not to do this:

- AppEngine has a built-in API for dealing with Google Accounts, but
not for OpenID

- Apparently OpenID requires some crypto that would be slow without
additional API support

- I'm not personally familiar with OpenID

None of these seem insurmountable, so now that it's open source, I'm
looking forward to contributions.

--Guido

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Joe Smith <unknown_kev_cat at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  "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.
>
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