[Debwebid-discuss] Some Django WebID experiment targetting db.debian.org

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Olivier Berger (2013-10-11 17:09:23)
> FYI, I'm currently working on trying to mix django-webid-provider [0] 
> with some userdir-ldap Django-based rewrite [1] to try and see whether 
> db.debian.org could be improved with some WebID generation, which 
> could provide canonical Debian WebIDs for Debian project members.
> 
> Note that along the way, I've bee updating django-webid-provider to 
> port it to Django 1.5 (see [2]).
> 
> I'm not yet sure how much can be achieved in mixing the 2 user models, 
> but that should be feasable in theory ;)
> 
> Note also that I haven't tried to perform WebID+TLS auth yet, but 
> again, there are supposedly some Django modules that may be reused.
> 
> Any comments/questions welcome.

I am no good with Python, but I dearly recommend to look into uWSGI for 
serving the webapp.  I recently explained at the FreedomBox some of the 
benefits of using uWSGI: 
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2013-October/005873.html

Here's a sample uWSGI snippet for a Django webapp: 
http://source.jones.dk/?p=local-COMMON.git;a=blob;f=uwsgi/apps-available/local-django-app.ini


 - Jonas

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