Kevin Dangoor wrote:
On 1/30/06, Alberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's sad... but I think we need some sort of authentication at the
Trac. Or put some sort of Hacker Page a là vserver ;)
(http://linux-vserver.org/Hacker+Page).
I just turned on the account manager plugin again so that people can
register. People had reported that they weren't seeing their accounts
become active immediately, which would be the primary concern there,
but let's give that another try.
If all goes well, I may then make all updates require authentication.
I still have a little polishing to do (mostly in the login screen), but
I'm going to be using openid for authentication in front of trac:
http://trac.pythonpaste.org/
You can get openid accounts from a few places; myopenid.com and
videntity.org seem the best options right now (videntity has more
features). This way I won't have to handle user management at all.
This doesn't stop all spam necessarily, but I assume it will stop it
until openid becomes popular ;) Hopefully complimentary trust-based
systems will also emerge before that happens.
Plus you get single-signon, which doesn't matter yet (single-signon only
works if sites use it, and not many use openid yet) -- but if openid
catches on in open source circles that would be enough to provide real
utility to users.
I'm planning on leaving ticket modification open, but closing wiki
modification and ticket creation. (I'd actually prefer a simple/flatter
system than a wiki for document contributions, so I'm mostly trying to
ignore Trac's wiki.)
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Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org
