[Mailman-Developers] Login / User Identification Issues in MM3

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Richard Wackerbarth writes:

 > Since by far the most complicated, and most used, logins will be
 > made from the web interface, it is much more logical to allow
 > Postorius to be responsible for all of the user profile information
 > and have the core, on those rare occasions where it requires it,
 > obtain password confirmation from that source.

>From the point of view of Postorius implementers, no question about
it.<wink/>

But isn't that going to take us a long way down the road where we
anoint Postorius the one-and-only admin interface?  If that really
needs to be, OK, but I don't much like it.  Among other things, it
will make the design and detailed UI of Postorius a focus of
discussion for everybody concerned with Mailman 3.  And it makes the
option to "build one to throw away" much more difficult -- the design
decisions already made, and will be made in the near future, will
probably live as long as Pipermail has (and Pipermail will continue
for several more years, at least!)

If that doesn't scare you....<wink/>