Idea: Make outline awesome for opensource development. Use Passport JS for authentication

[chsasank]

Github wiki is quite bad. Using outline is far superior experience than github wiki for opensource development.

To make outline the wiki for opensource development, we just have to do the following

• No login at all for read access
• Login with github and access control for write access or private collections

That's it, outline will be preferred wiki tool for opensource development :)

I already do KB for my project on outline. But people need to be on slack for giving the access.

I understand that this is not the first request for logins. How about we support general login mechanism and easy extensibility with technologies like

• SAML
• OAuth
• Passport js to implement it all!

Once we get passportjs in, authentication should become quite easy overall.

[matbrgz]

You could help to finish this #1183

[almereyda]

With Passport landing some time soon'ish, I also wonder how nice Outline would be as a public knowledge base like @documize

Are there any plans to support publicly readable pages via canonical URLs?

[tommoor]

We haven't put a lot of thought into publicly exposing the canonical URL's to be honest, I'm certainly not ruling it out – but there are a lot of OSS options for publicly hosted wiki's already. I think that internal knowledge bases are underserved in comparison and it's probably best for us to continue focusing efforts there.

[chsasank]

We should do it if and only if it's not a big effort to exposing things publicly.