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

[DeWitt Clinton]

I think I understand where you're coming from, but I'm not convinced it is
critical, and that's partly because I don't have an issue with us continuing
to use the JanRain RPX as long as everything is above board and transparent.

That said, I'm personally *all for* us setting aside a non-trivial portion
of the budget explicitly to fund open source development.  But that is for
the incoming board to decide and is worthy of a debate on its own.

-DeWitt

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Scott Kveton <scott at kveton.com> wrote:

> > So the Rails part is incidental, right?  Thus the motion could be
> rephrased
> > as "pay Refresh Media $2k to upgrade their plugin to support OpenID 2.0
> and,
> > as per the usual arrangement, open source the code"?
>
> To clarify, Ruby on Rails has an assortment of open source plugins
> that do all manner of things.  There happens to be one for OpenID that
> is out-of-date and has issues with things like directed identity and
> XRI's.  These would be fixed and then the patches would be submitted
> back to the maintainer of the open source OpenID plugin for Ruby on
> Rails.
>
> > If so, I have no objections to that motion per se, but I'd also say a)
> the
> > executive committee should be able to authorize this spending out of a
> > pre-approved budget and hence it shouldn't need a board vote, and b) I'd
> > rather us not vote on anything non-critical until the incoming BoD is in
> > place in a couple of weeks.
>
> Agreed on a) but we have not set that pre-approved budget.  As for b)
> I wouldn't have made the motion if I didn't think it was critical.  I
> see this as wrapping up loose ends for the new board instead of voting
> on non-critical things.
>
> > I very much like Brian's earlier point about making sure that the new ED
> and
> > incoming board have as much of a budget to work with as possible.
>
> While I agree with this in practice, $2000 is not that significant an
> investment to make sure the OIDF membership software is vendor
> neutral.
>
> - Scott
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