Stephen, I'm not advocating that Postorious be THE keeper of the user information. But it would be a good candidate for the job.
What I am advocating is that the "core" message handler NOT be the keeper of ONLY PART of it. I am perfectly happy to have the user info handled by an independent stand-alone module which is willing to take responsibility for ALL of the user profile info. It should provide a REST interface that allows other modules the ability perform authentications, manipulate the profile, etc. Another acceptable methodology would be to store all of the data in a real relational database and allow each of the modules direct access to the database engine. Richard On Jul 11, 2012, at 12:12 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Richard Wackerbarth writes: > >> Since by far the most complicated, and most used, logins will be >> made from the web interface, it is much more logical to allow >> Postorius to be responsible for all of the user profile information >> and have the core, on those rare occasions where it requires it, >> obtain password confirmation from that source. > > From the point of view of Postorius implementers, no question about > it.<wink/> > > But isn't that going to take us a long way down the road where we > anoint Postorius the one-and-only admin interface? If that really > needs to be, OK, but I don't much like it. Among other things, it > will make the design and detailed UI of Postorius a focus of > discussion for everybody concerned with Mailman 3. And it makes the > option to "build one to throw away" much more difficult -- the design > decisions already made, and will be made in the near future, will > probably live as long as Pipermail has (and Pipermail will continue > for several more years, at least!) > > If that doesn't scare you....<wink/> > _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
