[Adium-devl] Moving devl/svn to google groups?

Peter Hosey boredzo at adiumx.com
Tue Apr 21 04:33:52 UTC 2009


On 2009-04-20, at 21:27, Zachary West wrote:
> How does everyone feel about moving devl/commits to google groups?
> I've taken the liberty of registering adium-devl and adium-commits as
> group names,
>
> Upsides:
> * Searchable archives.

Google already works for this.

> * Ease of registration.

But requires registration, does it not? One couldn't subscribe to the  
Google Group without registering their email address as a Google  
Account. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

> Downsides:
> * Ease of registration (yes, it's twice—our users can be annoying  
> sometimes ;))

Too easy, sometimes. I say this having deleted the occasional spam  
thread from the Growl lists (although this hasn't happened in awhile).

> * Moving away from our own infrastructure takes away some level of  
> control.

OTOH, when does Google go down? ☺





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