[chef] Re: Proposal: Moving from lists.opscode. com to googlegroups… any concerns/objections?

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Jun 14, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Allan Wind wrote:

> I think you have to create a google account to subscribe to
> a list.  This is bit annoying but not the end of the world.

Indeed, the last Google Group I signed up for (devops-toolchain) did require 
use of a Google account.  And yes, that is a bit of a pain for those of us 
who see Google as the next Great Evil.

> The vim-users mailing list migrated to googlegroups a while back.  
> It works well now, but there were problems for a while.  Check 
> their archives.   If I recall someone from Google was subscribed, 
> and took care of things, otherwise support might have been
> problematic.

Speaking as one of the postmasters for python.org (albeit not very active), 
and as a member of the Mailman Steering Group (a.k.a., the Mailman Cabal), 
I'm happy to do whatever I can to help make the mailing lists at Opscode work 
better.

I know that searching the archive has been a big point of pain for a long 
time, but it's trivially easy to set up a USENET gateway which can then be 
accessed with all the standard tools, and it's easy enough to set up 
subscriptions to mail-archive.com (or any of the other similar free services).

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