Comments on: Mozilla Persona login support in Koha

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:40:14 +0000

I can only write some patches to implement OpenID if I’m paid to do so. As we’re currently paying off kohacon12, I’ve no budget to do other infrastructure work – this is the third time I think we’ve been in this position. At least this time it’s because we chose to do something positive and big!

Anyway, I find it rather frustrating when the funding doesn’t go towards implementing best tech first, but I guess that’s the cat-herding nature of this at the moment. I’m hoping that the core work funding discussion that Magnus is leading will relieve this.

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By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:03:37 +0000

I actually think persona works really well, and is getting better all the time, so we’ll have to agree to disagree. It is also not like the feature forces anyone to use Persona, and you don’t even have to enable it.

As a OpenID fan you could simply write some patches to implement that, then people could choose. 🙂

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By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:49:32 +0000

I think tying portable logins to email address (as Persona does) is braindead and I’m rather cross with Mozilla promoting another half-baked login method before making what they already have usable in their browsers first. I wrote more on this a while ago in the comments on http://www.news.software.coop/comments-with-openid/1271/

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By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:40:52 +0000

I’m actually happy it’s Persona, which is why I did it. Since the library can run its own persona server and even it’s own IDP if it wishes. I have no interest in openid, but im sure if someone wanted it enough they would write a patch.

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By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:22:41 +0000

Nice to have more login methods, but disappointing it’s Mozilla Persona. Can the infrastructure be extended to http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3237 or the other alternatives, do you think?

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