[Mailman-Developers] HyperKitty login

[Florian Fuchs]

On 05/31/2012 10:00 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Yeah, I think all the mentors and most of the other subscribers here
> can figure that out. The questions are "which one?"

https://github.com/omab/django-social-auth

> do) and "why this one?"

It's used in Postorius. There aren't that many around. This one's well 
documented, very comprehensive and works well with django.contrib.auth.

> Aamir is explicitly working on HyperKitty.  While it makes a whole lot
> of sense for him to generalize the authorization module to Postorius
> (and one would hope beyond), this does require communication with the
> people doing Postorius.  If he's talked to them and believes there's
> agreement on requirements, all I want to see is "I've talked to
> Florian on IRC about Postorius requirements for authorization, and we
> agree that they have the same requirements (see my blog)."  Of course
> he's welcome to post as much detail as he likes!

Aamir contacted me and Terri via email, Terri told him about 
django-social-auth. So he did start the required communication with us. 
He also talked to some other devs on #mailman about his approach.

Cheers,
Florian