Authentication (Re: Feature polls...)

Sean Gillies sgillies at FRII.COM
Fri Jan 13 23:30:53 EST 2006


Steve,

I don't see any need to implement authentication. Just use an  
existing Apache (or if you must, IIS) module. A combination of  
mod_auth and mod_rewrite ought to make almost anything possible or  
impossible.

Sean

On Jan 13, 2006, at 4:38 PM, Steve Lime wrote:

> Yes, and simple authentication support should be there too. There's  
> a =
> pretty
> well thought out bug for that one...
>
> Too little time.
>
> Steve
>
>>>> Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at DMSOLUTIONS.CA> 01/13/06 5:31 PM >>>
> Steve Lime wrote:
>> I guess we'd need a poll then... ;-)
>> =20
>
> Polls could be interesting to help us understand what the users  
> want.=20
> However as a developer I would not want to be bound to the results  
> of=20
> the poll and would want to retain full freedom to decide on my own=20
> priorities as I see fit. I mean we would use the results of the  
> poll as=20
> advice in our prioritization, but users should understand that even  
> if=20
> they vote for a given item that doesn't guarantee that anyone will=20
> choose to work on it.
>
> This being said, from your list, I think label priorization support=20
> would get my vote as first priority for a new feature and I'd have  
> some=20
> input to provide for that since I've been thinking about it too.  
> Another=20=
>
> key feature that was not in your list and that we should consider=20
> eventually is curved text labels.
>
> Daniel
> --=20
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>   Daniel Morissette               dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca=20
>   DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/=20
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