[Labs-l] TUSC-ish tool for webtools

Sat Mar 16 02:37:10 UTC 2013

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:
> Actually, we have something better almost ready to deploy:  actual
> OpenID with the Wikimedia.org as a provider.  This allows an editor to
> use their credentials and identity from the projects without giving the
> actual credentials to the tool.
>
> This means that any application that is coded to use OpenID (there are
> readily available easy to use libraries for pretty much every language
> likely to be used) can do it without the need of a specific tool.

This should be open to toolserver apps (and hosted 3rd party hosted
apps) to use as well. Fills a gap for labs but also solves a
long-standing problem for off-cluster apps in general.

-Jeremy