Hello,
On 03/31/10 07:28, Alec Warner wrote: > Currently a number of developers have engaged Google Apps Team Edition > for gentoo.org. However Team Edition does not come with gmail and a > subset of Team Edition users would like to host their gentoo.org mail > on gmail. > Activating Standard Edition is free and likely requires minimal > configuration on dev.gentoo.org to setup. Standard Edition comes with > Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Mail, Google Sites, Google Video, > and probably a bunch of other stuff we could turn on. I am worried that if people start using say Google Docs for collaborating on Gentoo content, everyone else is forced to use Google Docs to participate. While I do appreciate projects like TechTalks and Summer of Code I personally do not trust Google with my data. Also, most of these services are not Free Software -- I don't trust non-free software. If they are let's run our instance, not theirs. if they aren't lets go for something else. Btw if we really need a shared web-calendar let's make a project for that and get it done. Ironically, it may even fit for GSOC. > This service would be opt-in (only devs that want an account get one). > Infra should continue to offer standard mail services on > smtp.gentoo.org. As mentioned before: Opt-in is an illusion from the point on, where people need the same piece of software to collaborate. May not apply to some (Google Mail) but sure does to others. > This thread is primarily engaged in gauging interest in such a setup. > Please reply if you are interested (or go vote on the bug.) To be very clear: Please take my vote against increasing dependencies on Google. On a side note: This is not a technical discussion only. As such please use gentoo-core for this next time. Thanks. Sebastian
