[Mailman-Developers] any interest in a new built-in web-archive? (i.e. pipermail replacement)

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 27, 2012, at 01:29 PM, Terri Oda wrote:

>So Postorius (the webUI) has a sketch of an auth system using BrowserID at
>the moment.  BrowserID is convenient 'cause it proves you have ownership of a
>given email address, but we should have OpenID working soon once we've got
>the code to confirm that a given OpenID can be associated with an email
>address.
>
>We should do a little thinking about how to make sure that the archives
>system can make use of the webui authentication.  In theory, you could just
>use the same browserID/etc. and perform authentication again to provide a
>single sign on with the same tokens, but we can probably do something nicer
>by sharing the webui django accounts.

Definitely.

One thing the engine has to expose is the ability to associate multiple email
addresses with a "user".  The core supports this as a concept, but we may not
have what we need exposed in the REST API yet.  It's also something I want to
expose in the email commands interface.

-Barry