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Re: Bug#717538: ITP: python-django-oauth-plus -- Support of OAuth 1.0a in Django using python-oauth2



Hi, Andrew,

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 21:41:58 -0400
Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <a.starr.b@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Kouhei Maeda <mkouhei@palmtb.net> wrote:
> >   Description     : Support of OAuth 1.0a in Django using python-oauth2
> >
> >  The OAuth protocol enables websites or applications (Consumers) to access
> >  Protected Resources from a web service (Service Provider) via an API, without
> >  requiring Users to disclose their Service Provider credentials to the
> >  Consumers. More generally, OAuth creates a freely-implementable and generic
> >  methodology for API authentication.
> 
> The description is more about OAuth generally than
> python-django-oauth-plus. For instance, it wasn't clear to me that
> this is was a provider and not something that helped consumers do the
> OAuth dance. 

Thank you for pointing out.
I will fix reference to your advice.

> There are a number of other Django OAuth providers (not
> packaged for Debian AFAIK). The description should give me a hint as
> to why I should use this one.

There is a separate purpose of which I wanted to try to package this tool.
I have ITP with djangorestframework as #717551, that is used as a plug-in django-auth-plus. 

Best regards,
-- 
Kouhei Maeda <mkouhei at {palmtb.net,debian.or.jp}>
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