Re: [Tools-discuss] Zulip accounts and datatracker

[Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>]

I'll set what's needed up and contact Mateusz and Tim directly with the 
details.

The general answer to the questions can be seen (with a little knowledge 
of oidc) at 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/api/openid/.well-known/openid-configuration

RjS

On 5/18/21 9:45 PM, Tim Abbott wrote:
> Adding Mateusz, who works on authentication backends for Zulip.
>
> I expect we can just make this work via OpenID Connect; the Zulip 
> mobile apps are designed to support the web authentication flow, so if 
> we can make it work on web, it'll work on mobile too (The terminal app 
> doesn't support this flow yet, but it will).  If someone can share 
> details/documentation on what exactly DataTracker implements and how 
> to get a sandbox that can be developed against, Mateusz can look at 
> what needs to happen to support it in Zulip.  It might be only a 
> couple days' work if we have a way to test; a typical new 
> authentication backend for something supported by python-social-auth 
> is 150 lines of code, of which maybe 30 implement it and the rest are 
> tests and documentation.
>
> (I imagine that it'd work like our Google auth integration, 
> prepopulating the name and email address when someone makes an account).
>
>         -Tim Abbott
>
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 3:33 PM Robert Sparks <[e-mail] 
> <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 5/18/21 1:24 PM, Salz, Rich wrote:
>>
>>     Hi there.  I’m one of those who wants Zulip to succeed.  Like
>>     most, however, I’m not up on the technical details.
>>
>>     Tim and Tim (heck, not unambiguous, nor is TimA :) know the
>>     technical details. I’ve CC’d both of them, anyway.
>>
>>     I know we’ve had some emails floating around about Zulip account
>>     issues and integrating with DataTracker. I’m just trying to tie
>>     all the threads together in the “official place” so that we can
>>     bring this to a close and get it working.
>>
>     In the spirit of moving some of those conversations to one place:
>
>     Datatracker integration with Zulip might be easier to solve than
>     jabber or imap (we have some integration with the latter, but it's
>     more custom than we should keep in the long run). It should be
>     easy for the web client to use oidc. If the mobile client is using
>     https underneath, it would probably be easy for it to use oidc as
>     well. Are there other interfaces that need to be considered?
>
>     If oidc isn't an option architecturally, then I'd like to explore
>     what might be.
>
>     In any case, I'd like to determine if we san set the displayed
>     username and the email address displayed when you inspect someone
>     in the Users list using data from the datatracker?
>
>     RjS
>
>>     Thanks. Let me know what I can do to help.
>>
>>
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