Flexible membership authentification api?
Dan Finlay Fri 30 Nov 2012 7:10AMPublicSeen by 47Lots of groups already have "members" and would rather let members be pre-approved by their existent system than have to sign up for a new service. Wordpress, Drupal, and especially Facebook Groups would greatly benefit from member pre-approving modules.
Create member-approval API, and encourage and even spotlight authentication modules that are made.
proposal by Dan Finlay Closed Sun 2 Dec 2012 11:37PM
Early modules would probably include Facebook Group import, Wordpress, Drupal, evite, eventbrite, etc. Above all, a RESTful API could encourage further development by prospective group members.
Results
| Results | Option | Votes | % of votes cast | % of eligible voters | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agree | 1 | 20 | 0 | | |
| Abstain | 3 | 60 | 1 |    | |
| Disagree | 1 | 20 | 0 |  | |
| Block | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Not voted | 270 | 98 |     .png){kind=small}         |
Dan Finlay
Fri 30 Nov 2012 7:14AM
Adoption is key. That's why I propose it.
Robert Guthrie
Sat 1 Dec 2012 8:03PM
I think I agree with you Dan, but the wording of this is wrong. We can't get anywhere by creating an API - we need to adopt existing Authentication API's
vivien maidaborn
Sun 2 Dec 2012 12:16PM
Happy for others to make this decision
Alanna IrvingSun 2 Dec 2012 5:34PM
not sure about the technicalities so abstaining
Benjamin KnightSun 2 Dec 2012 10:19PM
Would like some more details before making a decision
Alanna IrvingFri 30 Nov 2012 5:54PM
I think this could be really good for increasing engagement by making it easier for new groups to get all their members on. But wondering about some more details of how it would be implemented. Dan, are you volunteering to create this?
Benjamin KnightSat 1 Dec 2012 10:34PM
Absolutely agree with implementing cross platform authentication in the near future, but would like to know who is planning to implement this and see some more research about the best way to go before making a decision!
Benjamin KnightSat 1 Dec 2012 10:35PM
@danfinlay , can you give a few more details? Are you looking for approval to take on building this yourself? Or are you looking to get this added to the development roadmap more generally?
Richard D. Bartlett ·Fri 30 Nov 2012 9:41AM
Hi Dan, great idea. I'm not really familiar with the technical aspects of this proposal - how would such an API relate to a service like OAuth?