GoogleLogin errors - is it possible to support this extension?

[jakejellinek]

Name of extension

GoogleLogin

MediaWiki.org page (if it exists)

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleLogin

Justification

This allows google authentication to work. The extension says it should support:-
MediaWiki 1.36+
MySQL/MariaDB (no PostgreSQL or SQLite support)
PHP 7.3+

However after downloading the Mediawiki 1.39 version of the extension, I see this error when logging in:-

[60245817afd463888e4de1d8] /w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Main+Page ParseError: syntax error, unexpected 'private' (T_PRIVATE), expecting variable (T_VARIABLE)

I believe this may have something to do with PHP version changes.

How often is this extension/skin updated?

With media wiki versions I believe.

How many people contribute to this extension regularly?

Not sure.

How many consistent maintainers are there (i.e. those who would be capable of continuing the extension's development in the other maintainers' absence)? Do not include people who make one-time or occasional contributions.

Are you the author of this extension/skin?

No

I tried using a newer version of the plugin, and I can get GoogleLogin to work and accept logins, however this then breaks file uploading with errors.

[yaronkoren]

It seems to me that the GoogleLogin extension simply does not work (yet) with MW 1.39 - judging by both what you wrote, and the messages on that extension's talk page. Have you tried using the OpenID Connect extension instead to log in with Google? That works, as far as I know - and it's in Canasta.

[jakejellinek]

I think I have it working with an older release of GoogleLogin now (Release 1.38) which I found on github. I can log in, and I can file upload again. I'm not sure how to configure OpenID Connect, but may give that a go, as I do prefer to be running newer versions of plugins. Thanks.