[OpenID] Beanstalk removes OpenID support

[Ben Laurie]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> So Beanstalk just removed support for OpenID from their hosted subversion
> app:
> http://www.wildbit.com/blog/2009/05/26/what-happened-to-openid-support-in-beanstalk/
> I find this both interesting and frustrating, since I used OpenID to sign in
> to my Beanstalk account and now can't remember my username. Heh, go figure.
> Still, it points out that the lack of desktop/API solution for OpenID as a
> *baked* solution could really hurt the protocol as OpenID seeps into more
> applications. I mean, Beanstalk is still one application, but the fact that
> we as a community haven't articulated how to use OpenID with SVN (or built
> the technical machinery to make that easy) ultimately impacts adoption.
> Anyway, thought it was worth bringing up here, since it's something I hadn't
> really seen before.

It is also interesting that they ask for OAuth support in SVN, but
what they actually need is OpenID support, isn't it?

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