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Updated current status of Persona in the contexts of Mozilla and Sudo Room.
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In terms of practical usage for sudo room, there are a sufficient number of [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona/Libraries_and_plugins libraries and plugins] available for integrating and developing with lots of different applications and environments. This [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/04/mozilla-persona-for-the-non-web/ blog post from 2013] explains some more about how these libraries can be used. | In terms of practical usage for sudo room, there are a sufficient number of [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona/Libraries_and_plugins libraries and plugins] available for integrating and developing with lots of different applications and environments. This [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/04/mozilla-persona-for-the-non-web/ blog post from 2013] explains some more about how these libraries can be used. | ||
In 2014, Mozilla transitioned Persona to community ownership. In January 2016, they announced plans to decommission the Mozilla-operated Persona infrastructure in November 2016. In September 2016, Sudo Room [https://github.com/sudoroom/sudo-infrastructure/issues/2 dropped Persona login support]. | |||
The browserid standard is still an open standard, and it would still be possible for us to set up an IdP, but this would be a significant undertaking. | |||
==Use Case== | ==Use Case== | ||
Our hackerspace community has an opportunity to support an environment for creative expression and new, elegant services. We have basic infrastructure including a wordpress website (with blog and shared calendar system), this mediawiki wiki, a membership application (in the works), and an issue tracker (next on deck). However, a limitation to running 2 or ''n'' services is managing more than one user account. Hackerspaces commonly write manual hacks to shim user account generation, and to propogate password updates across multiple systems. These solutions are a pain and very unstable. Persona offers a viable alternative, so at the very least we can use the same shim in each system. | Our hackerspace community has an opportunity to support an environment for creative expression and new, elegant services. We have basic infrastructure including a wordpress website (with blog and shared calendar system), this mediawiki wiki, a membership application (in the works), and an issue tracker (next on deck). However, a limitation to running 2 or ''n'' services is managing more than one user account. Hackerspaces commonly write manual hacks to shim user account generation, and to propogate password updates across multiple systems. These solutions are a pain and very unstable. Persona offers a viable alternative, so at the very least we can use the same shim in each system. | ||
''' | '''We want to create an environment where members are encouraged to create lots of new apps, rather than bottlenecking on centralized/monolithic apps. With persona, these apps may have a lower barrier to entry since existing users can authenticate without registration.''' | ||
==Identity Provider (IdP)== | ==Identity Provider (IdP)== | ||