[wp-docs] Codex authorization

[Otto]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Lorelle on WordPress
<lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com> wrote:
> To expand a little more beyond what Chip said, each "section" of WordPress
> uses different publishing platforms. Few have access to the "WordPress" part
> of WordPress.org or WordPress.com (they both have similar setups) as the
> bloggy part is small comparatively.
> The Forums are on bbPress. The Codex is on MediaWiki. There are even efforts
> to incorporate some BuddyPress features into the whole mess, though I'm not
> sure of the status of those yet, and how much is BuddyPress and how much is
> custom.
> Each of these has their own logins. Integrating the forums into
> WordPress.org was easy as it was mostly bbPress. After a couple years, they
> incorporated the "look and feel" of the Codex into the main site, but logins
> were never completely merged in. Now, that's the effort. How to combine two
> extensive and HUGE databases into one. Kudos to all involved in the effort.
> It's a monstrous one and I hope they blog it cuz I'm fascinated to see how
> it all comes together and the challenges that had to be overcome in the
> process.
> Hopefully soon, we'll all be one happy login family. :D
> Lorelle

I have the new codex logins working, actually. It is a rather simple
MediaWiki plugin. The upgrade to the support forums did set me back a
bit as I had to rework the code to handle the new password hashing
mechanisms.

I'll install it as soon as I get the unified cookie system working, so
that logging into one place will log you into all of them. :)

-Otto