forceAuthentication
	... ... It sounds like consensus on this thread (and elsewhere) is to prefix experimental features and also document them. I'd like nudge on the documentation part: [link] ... By Kumar McMillan  - May 13 - 1 new of 1 message

	Persona data storage improvement discussion and next steps
	TL;DR: We discussed higher availability database options in a work week session, and we identifies three solutions to prototype: A) sticking with a single-master MySQL cluster, focusing on improving failover and error messaging; B) a multi-master, multi-region MySQL cluster (possibly using Tungsten);... more » By Gene Wood  - May 12 - 5 new of 5 messages

	Today's network issues and Persona
	TL;DR Early this morning we had network issues that resulted in a loss of database replication for about 4 hours. During this time half of DB writes (password changes, new account signups) were delayed in their replication to the other datacenter. This could have resulted in users signing up for... more » By Gene Wood  - May 10 - 1 new of 1 message

	Bigtent Issue#178 PIN proposal for short term fix
	The BigTent group worked hard to come to a short term solution that was acceptable to all of the leads (skinny UX, edwin QA, callahad Dev). TL;DR; [link] This is *not* a perfect or long term solution. Proposal ------- 1) Rework Copy throughout the flow... more » By Austin King  - May 9 - 2 new of 2 messages

	Good read: PayPal exec aims to “obliterate passwords from the face of the planet” (Ars)
	[link]<[link])>... more » By Pascal Finette | Mozilla  - May 9 - 1 new of 1 message

	navigator.id.logout doesn't trigger onlogout if user doesn't have a Persona session
	(Posted at the behest of callahad after I tested it) So Flicks ran into an issue recently where users would log into Flicks, then log out of another Persona-enabled site and lose their Persona session. When they went back to Flicks, they would be logged into Flicks and see a Sign Out button, but when the button was clicked and ran... more » By Michael Kelly  - May 8 - 2 new of 2 messages

	Privacy Research
	Hi, I just wanted to share some privacy and personal data research that Customer Commons (my org) published early today: Lying and Hiding in the Name of Privacy [link] It's likely obvious to many, but we wanted to show a baseline for the poor strategy people invoke now.. to create some privacy.... more » By Mary Hodder  - May 8 - 1 new of 1 message

Refining our development process

Several weeks ago we discussed a change to our development process. Specifically, the proposal was to branch code a couple of days earlier, effectively reducing the amount of time we spend each 2 week development cycle in "code slush". While there are several subtle tradeoffs in this slight tweak, developers are interested in trying it, and our QA lead for persona has agreed to give it a try.... more » By Lloyd Hilaiel  - May 8 - 1 new of 1 message

	why so quiet? work week may 6-10
	Identity peeps are in Vancouver this week to brainstorm and hang out in person, so the list, IRC, and github issues will probably be a lot quieter than usual. We'll be back at full intensity next week. Jared By Jared Hirsch  - May 7 - 3 new of 3 messages

	mailling list archive
	hello, is there archive of this mailing list that is not on google? TIA. By ferriswheel @ JE Tech Serv  - May 6 - 2 new of 2 messages