On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Thursday 11 March 2010 00:10:00 Jeroen Roovers wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:42:43 +0000 (UTC) Duncan wrote: >> > So a gmail account is now considered mandatory for Gentoo devs, at >> > least if they want calendar access? >> > >> > What about those who might think that Google knows enough about them >> > with search and the web crawling and database correlation Google >> > does, and whatever ad serving might leak thru, and object to having a >> > gmail account on principle? >> >> That's OK. I'm a Gentoo dev and I won't be "subscribing". Fair enough? > > you dont need an account to "subscribe" (read/track updates). anyone can do > that anonymously. > -mike >
I think Duncan's point is that in the Social Contract it talks about how Gentoo should only rely on open source software. The question is does this apply to our 'product' or does it apply to everything. Certainly users can continue to use Gentoo without using this calendar at all; however if it becomes some kind of integral part of Gentoo (which I doubt it will) we will have to look at switching to something else (which is easy given the many export formats of Google Calendar :)) I am all about trying out new things and working out the details after the fact;so +1 to the calendar as well. -A
