[Mailman-Developers] OpenID login for Mailman

[Dag Arneson]

Hello Mailman Developers.

I'm in the process of writing a patch to allow users and site admins to 
log in using OpenID, a protocol using browser redirects for delegating 
authentication to a special site, using a URL as an identifier.  (see 
www.openidenabled.com and/or www.openid.net for more info)

I downloaded 2.1.7rc1 and I have been investigating what it will take to 
write this patch.  I have had trouble connecting to the cvs server,
"cvs [login aborted]: reading from server: Connection reset by peer"
or I would be looking at the latest cvs.  Anyhow...

I noticed the two modules MemberAdaptor.py and OldStyleMemberships.py, 
the latter of which contains an implementation while the former does 
not.  It appears that the membership system is in some sort of 
transition, and I wondered what the plans were, and how I could help, 
especially to make it easier to use OpenID or other similar systems.

Dag Arneson
JanRain Inc.