[Overload-sig] Gmane may be shutting down

[Guido van Rossum]

I don't want to speak for Steve, but I thought that was the whole
point of MM3? Or at least HyperKitty?

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> Yep. Nadia Eghbal's Ford Foundation report is unfortunately very accurate
> and topical, but that isn't news to anyone on this list (I hope).
>
> Anyway, the reason I brought it up is that I know people have used gmane to
> access our mailing lists and if it goes away then we lose the one
> web-accessible solution to our mailing lists in terms of replying, etc. (or
> at least the one that I'm aware of). Does MM3 have a solution if gmane goes
> away?
>
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 at 11:31 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> Oh, man! :-(
>>
>> It's the tragedy of the commons. The ReadTheDocs team is close to
>> burn-out too, as is of course our own Donald "PyPI is not my middle
>> name" Stufft.
>>
>> Companies using open source really need to take care better of their
>> infrastructure, and we can't always look at Google or Mozilla.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> > Looks like the maintainer is burning out:
>> > https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/
>> >
>> > If gmane is shut down it will impact the accessibility of our MM2 lists
>> > I
>> > suspect as gmane seems to be popular enough, so our work may have just
>> > become a bit more important.
>> >
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