[chef] Re: Re: Migrating mailing list

[Lamont Granquist < >]

Yeah given the risk of another Google Reader that might be an excellent 
reason for something else...

On 9/4/13 3:26 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:
> On Sep 4, 2013, at 5:10 PM, Julian C. Dunn 
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> > I'm with Lamont. I'd much rather see us keep a static archive of the old list 
> > (perhaps migrating the last year or so) and just use Google Groups. Everyone 
> > knows Google Groups.
> The problem with Google Groups is that it is effectively completely 
> unsupported.
>
> So long as it continues to "work" (for some definition of the word "work"), then it's 
> okay.  But when it stops "working", there's no one who is going to fix it.  You're on your own, 
> and no one cares.
>
> I have friends at Google, and their answer is to use something else -- 
> anything else that is actually supported.  If they use GG at all, it's only 
> because there is nothing else available to them.
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> While I've been involved in helping to support the Mailman project for over 
> ten years, and I have some personal biases towards that end, I'm actually 
> fairly agnostic on the matter of where this list is hosted -- I'm happy to do 
> everything I can to help make it happen on Mailman-based resources, but I'm 
> also happy to have it hosted somewhere else, so long as that somewhere else 
> actually works and is actually supported.
>
> If that means using simplelists.com, then I'm happy to do what I can to 
> support that.  But given what I've heard from my friends who work at Google, 
> I am now actively against using Google Groups.
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