[Python-Dev] Invitation to try out open source code review tool (original) (raw)

Joe Smith unknown_kev_cat at hotmail.com
Mon May 5 17:27:59 CEST 2008

"Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote in message news:ca471dc20805040936nf06de9dk77f37433254b0495 at mail.gmail.com...

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefanml at behnel.de> wrote:

Personally, I would consider the following sufficient:

1) people who have authenticated themselves against the underlying VCS (i.e. project members) may post public comments and comment on other comments Tell me how to authenticate against a SVN project using HTTP only.

Hmm... Is there a good reason not to just migrate over to OpenID? For one thing, surely an OpenID provider could exist that just authenticates a username against an SVN account. Then many people already have a Yahoo account or AOL screenname. On the downside, the OpenID system will likely not be terribly effective at avoiding spam in the long run, as spammers register accounts at providers (especially those without or with weak Captchas). On the otherhand, there are already reports of Spammers mass signing-up for Google accounts, so it may not be that different in the long run anyway.

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