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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On June 23, 2010, Michael Nelson wrote:
> I had a related question which I forgot in the doc. Why do we want to
> add custom code in the Launchpad subscription creation  methods to
> accept OpenID identities and create LP users where necessary? Wouldn't
> it be better for the agent to get-or-create the lp user using the lp
> api (if such a method exists) and then just call the subscription
> creation methods with the actual user?

That's not a bad idea at all. 

There isn't a API method to create a LP person from an openid identifier, but 
we could add one. It should only be available to the admin script.

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Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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