Talked to the openphoto people. They have browserid support, which looks easy and pleasant: https://browserid.org/

Furthermore, the OpenPhoto people say it's easy. So why not support it? :)

<paroneayea> hub: we don't use browserid yet
<paroneayea> but I'd like to
<jmathai> paroneayea: said there's a json spec but it's not finalized yet
<paroneayea> how hard is browserid to implement?
<paroneayea> it looks beautifully pleasant to use
<jmathai> trivial
<paroneayea> really?
<paroneayea> awesome

Not entirely on topic with #658 or #659, but related.

My expectation was for the atom feed to contain the thumbnail of the image (or equivalent of other media types). This is important to me, as I want to widgetize/aggregate the feed on other sites.

I found two places where feeds are generated, mediagoblin/user_pages/views.py and mediagoblin/listings/views.py:

for entry in cursor:
    feed.add(entry.get('title'),
        entry.get('description_html'),
        content_type='html',
        author=request.matchdict['user'],
        updated=entry.get('created'),
        url=entry.url_for_self(request.urlgen))

I am not sure what the thumbnail is, but I am betting it is a summary or maybe content (see the werkzeug atom docs). I think this is important, even if we are moving to make it a full ActivityStream, since the federation I have in mind is something akin to a dashboard view of new photos posted on my friends' sites.

So, can we get a thumbnail in there? =]

In this bug I will put comments as I review the new video code. I will add new comments to this ticket as I go. I hope this is okay and will be workable.