I'll work on that over the next week and see if I can come up with a good design to work off of.
*--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Ryan Lane <rlan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm new on this list but found that the last thread about ExternalAuth > [1] > > dated back from 2010 [2] but I thought it was acceptable to bring up > > the subject again :) > > > > ExternalAuth should be dropped from core. It isn't maintained, it only > supports a single type of authentication that's for something like > phpbb, and it requires all of the authentication mechanisms to be in > core. > > AuthPlugin sucks too, but it's maintained, has lots of extensions, and > the extensions can be outside of the core repo. > > I'd love for someone to fix our authentication code. AuthPlugin itself > isn't terrible, but it needs some refactoring. getCanonicalName, for > instance, needs to burn in the fiery depths of hell it came from. > Also, core developers tend to ignore that AuthPlugin exists, > occasionally. For instance, when the preferences system was rewritten > it just dropped all calls to AuthPlugin; that's never been fixed since > then. > > Bottom line: we need to give a crap about auth plugins in general. It > falls by the way side since we don't seem to care much about third > party users, though. > > - Ryan > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
