On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 02:32:05PM +0200, Michal Konecny wrote:
On 24. 06. 21 11:51, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
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> > * Do we want to get noggin to be able to verify nicks first?
> How will the verification works?
>
>
> We don't know yet. I was thinking of having and IRC bot that would get
> an HTTP request from Noggin to verify a user, and would send a link with
> a JWT token as a private message that the user would click on, pretty
> much like what we do for email (except it requires an IRC bot). Of
> course, if we want to support Matrix, we'll need a Matrix bot too to
> verify the nicknames as well.
> That's a pretty decent chunk of work and I don't think it can be done by
> next week. Hopefully sometime in the north hemispherian summer. So if we
> make it a requirement it's going to delay things quite a bit.
I thought we will just validate that the username exists. If we want
to
validate it's really the user it will be more difficult.
It's basically what FMN does and it works the way Aurélien has described it. I
wonder if we could re-use parts of the code there? Or maybe even share the IRC
bot?
Pierre