[OpenID board] BOARD VOTE: Motion to update Rails plugin and OpenID.net ...

[Dick Hardt]

On 17-Dec-08, at 6:50 PM, Scott Kveton wrote:

>> Has any asked whoever built the current library if they will fix it?
>
> The Refresh folks spoke with the current maintainer and he agrees is
> needs to be fixed and is willing to accept patches but isn't going to
> do the work.
>
>> btw: I do agree it is an issue that we changed the site during the
>> process -- but changing again is also bad. That people were locked  
>> out
>> from joining for a while was disappointing. I'd prefer to try and  
>> keep
>> the site stable until the elections are over and then replace RPX  
>> with
>> an open source implementation that works.
>
> I should clarify: the election ends on 12/24/2008 and changes to the
> membership software would be *after* that.  No one is going to touch
> the membership software until after the elections are completed.

ok -- that was not clear

I am still uncomfortable with the Foundation paying for any open  
source development. I think it distorts the community. Why is Rails  
getting funds from the Foundation as opposed to anyone else? With the  
bounty program, lots of projects could qualify, and there were enough  
bounties that it was not a harsh first come, first served scenario  
where you needed to make the gold rush. Here with Rails we are  
providing funds just because that is the platform that Refresh chose.  
Given that, Refresh chose a bad platform and I'm not keen for the  
Foundation to have to fix it.

-- Dick