wysiwyg is our beginners preferred plugin and the one making a
difference to so many other wikis.

On Jun 20, 5:36 pm, "Erik Bray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Alec Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Historically, the WebAdmin and Spam plugins are the only two imported
> > into Trac. Both started life as plugins hosted on t.e.o, both were
> > written by cmlenz, and both were imported by him. Both were also long
> > overdue.
>
> > However, so are others in my opinion: AccountManager definitely.
>
> Definitely agreed on large chunks of AccountManager.  Most people
> don't really seem to be familiar with how the HTTP authentication
> methods work.  They just to be able to register users through the web
> and log in via an HTML form, like they're used to from most other CMSs
> out there.  This seems to be the most common use case, and making it
> more easily available, I think, would eliminate an enormous chunk of
> the support questions on the mailing list.  Those of us who need to
> switch to different user management backends, or integrate with
> existing web server authentication, are more likely to know what we're
> doing anyways.  Or at the very least, being less common use cases I
> think there would be fewer questions about alternative authentication
> setups.  I have no data on this of course, but a browse through the
> mailing list archives seems to suggest that most people don't need or
> want to think very hard about authentication.
>
> Erik
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