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[Aaron Wells <1533377@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Mozilla has recently announced that they're ending support for the
Persona authentication service, in November 2016.:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Persona_Shutdown_Guidelines_for_Reliers

Mahara has long shipped with a Persona (formerly "Browserid") auth
plugin. We'll need to remove this plugin from the 16.10 release, and
come up with a way to help existing sites migrate their users away from
Persona.

We should also consider how to help out the stable release sites in
migrating users away from Persona. The Nov 2016 shutdown will be very
close to the 16.10 release date, so asking sites to upgrade to 16.10 to
use any migration tool will be fairly demanding, particularly since
15.04 will still be covered by its extended support lifetime. So for
15.04, 15.10, and 16.04 sites, an optional Persona migration plugin is
probably the best option. That way the functionality will be available
to sites that need it, without shipping new features in minor upgrades.

** Affects: mahara
     Importance: Medium
         Status: New


** Tags: auth browserid persona

** Summary changed:

- Remove Persona (browserid) auth plugin, because Mozilla is ending Persona support
+ Remove Persona (browserid) auth plugin by Nov 2016, because Mozilla is ending Persona support

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1533377

Title:
  Remove Persona (browserid) auth plugin by Nov 2016, because Mozilla is
  ending Persona support

Status in Mahara:
  New

Bug description:
  Mozilla has recently announced that they're ending support for the
  Persona authentication service, in November 2016.:
  https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Persona_Shutdown_Guidelines_for_Reliers

  Mahara has long shipped with a Persona (formerly "Browserid") auth
  plugin. We'll need to remove this plugin from the 16.10 release, and
  come up with a way to help existing sites migrate their users away
  from Persona.

  We should also consider how to help out the stable release sites in
  migrating users away from Persona. The Nov 2016 shutdown will be very
  close to the 16.10 release date, so asking sites to upgrade to 16.10
  to use any migration tool will be fairly demanding, particularly since
  15.04 will still be covered by its extended support lifetime. So for
  15.04, 15.10, and 16.04 sites, an optional Persona migration plugin is
  probably the best option. That way the functionality will be available
  to sites that need it, without shipping new features in minor
  upgrades.

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