Hello Tom, I must commend your great foresight as we may be robbed of not only the rich content of our email communication history, our mailing list may also not be available.
My suggestion will be for us to look in the direction of something open source as a stop gap between the time that we may agree to move and the time we have completed deliberations, business case analysis and decisions on the way forward. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 26, 2020, at 12:13 PM, Tom Forbes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > Given the recent worldwide situation I’ve found myself thinking a lot about > contingency plans recently. I wanted to raise a question about our reliance > on Google Groups and if we had any contingency plans if this service was shut > down? > > To put it politely, it's pretty obvious that Google Groups is in “maintenance > mode” and there is little, if any, active development. Alongside this: > 1. Google has apparently broken core functionality like advanced searching, > and left it broken for years at a time > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#Google_Groups) > 2. Google itself has shut down down maintenance-mode services before even if > they have an active user base (see Google Reader) > 3. Google Groups clearly doesn’t bring any revenue to Google at all, and is > probably a legal liability. > > Given this, if we have not already we should maybe consider what we would do > if it was announced tomorrow that Google Groups was shutting down in 3 to 6 > months? > > Perhaps we’ve already considered this but I couldn’t find any discussions > about this (and it’s hard to search for threads that reference “Google > Groups” as every thread contains that string!). Some food for thought: the > Python development mailing lists (i.e > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/) are browsable > through a service called HyperKitty (https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty), > which is built with Django. We could potentially ask for a mailing list on > the python.org mail server or we could host HyperKitty and MailMan ourselves? > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/2715F232-322F-4C3D-BEE7-9C63C2B0ECFB%40tomforb.es. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/00FED57B-A543-43B3-BEF0-94490DF79B44%40gmail.com.
