Re: Commit fest?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Gregory Stark wrote:
> >> "Bruce Momjian" <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> >>> The comments  are stored at JS-Kit:
> >>> http://js-kit.com/comments/
> >> 
> >> It's stored in their server?
> 
> > Yes, that was the beauty of it --- I just add javascript with a tag and
> > all comments are handled by them.
> 
> "Beauty"?  I don't think we want to rely on non-project-controlled
> servers for anything that's part of our core infrastructure.  If/when
> js-kit.com goes belly-up, what happens to that data?  Also, what kind of
> privacy guarantees have we got?  (Admittedly, privacy may be moot for
> information that was originally entered on a public web page, but the
> whole idea of someone else controlling our data just makes me itch.)
> 
> I can go along with this as a jury-rig setup for our first commit fest,
> but it just seems like another powerful argument for moving to something
> wiki-based as soon as we can get that sorted.

We could move to a wiki if someone finds out how to dump emails into a
wiki, or if we decide to be more structured in our methods, like having
separate URLs for bugs, feature requests, and patches, and doing all
activity on those items at those URLs.

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