<div dir="ltr">Resending since the last one was blocked...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Andrew Arnott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrewarnott@gmail.com">andrewarnott@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr">Plus +2 for Github, due to the ease with which people can contribute spontaneously and even track their own slight variants on the official libraries for their own "quirks" needs and for ease for you to incorporate those changes into the official versions.<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Chris Messina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.messina@gmail.com" target="_blank">chris.messina@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've been having conversations with folks about the current OpenID<br>
libraries lately and it seems to me that it would be highly valuable<br>
to both consolidate the existing [good] libraries, to get more<br>
visibility and transparency into their development, to increase the<br>
number of contributors, to give the foundation more direct management<br>
of the codebase, to open up the support queue, to enable branching,<br>
and to also go about creating separate libraries for each respective<br>
language, rather than just using ports of the Python libraries.<br>
<br>
Yes, this is a tall order, but given the experience I've had with<br>
pushing the development of OAuth libraries (<a href="http://oauth.net/code" target="_blank">http://oauth.net/code</a>), I<br>
think we need to shift where and how the development happens to get<br>
more momentum going and make it easier to manage project access.<br>
<br>
I propose that we make use of either Google Code or Github. I'm not<br>
looking for a religious battle here; I'm personally more familiar and<br>
comfortable with Google Code, but Github has proven to be a rather<br>
excellent tool for distributed/decentralized development.<br>
<br>
This request is primarily initiated from conversations I've had in the<br>
course of working on the DiSo Project -- both from WordPress and<br>
Drupal devs... and from folks who have submitted patches to the<br>
openidenabled dev list [1] which have been ignored.<br>
<br>
Such impressions can lead to lasting impressions, and if anything, we<br>
need to radically improve the community and developer footprint of<br>
OpenID -- and turn it into a leading open source initiative. Working<br>
with top tier tools is the place to start.<br>
<br>
Now, there's one caveat here that requires a nod from the Sourceforge<br>
project maintainers: the Sourceforge project<br>
(<a href="http://openid.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://openid.sourceforge.net/</a>) currently redirects to the wiki. This<br>
means that the "OpenID" project name is reserved on Google Code, so if<br>
we want to make use of that project, the folks who own the Sourceforge<br>
project would need to give us the go-ahead to reuse that project name<br>
(Google reserved all the Sourceforge project names to prevent<br>
squatting).<br>
<br>
If yes, we can go about getting the projects started up -- perhaps<br>
following the architecture of the OAuth repository:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/oauth/source/browse/#svn/code" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/oauth/source/browse/#svn/code</a><br>
<br>
I look forward to your thoughts and feedback.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
Chris<br>
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[1] <a href="http://lists.openidenabled.com/mailman/listinfo/dev" target="_blank">http://lists.openidenabled.com/mailman/listinfo/dev</a><br>
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