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 <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/python-...@python.org/ <https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-...@python.org/>) are browsable through a service called HyperKitty (https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty <https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty>), which is built with Django. We could potentially ask for a mailing list on the python.org <http://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 django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/2715F232-322F-4C3D-BEE7-9C63C2B0ECFB%40tomforb.es.
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