[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo calendar for tracking Gentoo events

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Alec Warner posted on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:53:14 -0800 as excerpted:

>> you dont need an account to "subscribe" (read/track updates).  anyone
>> can do that anonymously.
>> -mike

Thanks.  That wasn't clear from the original.  Good to make it explicit 
(as you have now several times). =:^)

> I think Duncan's point is that in the Social Contract it talks about how
> Gentoo should only rely on open source software.

Well, that, and the simple assumption that every dev had no objection to a 
gmail account.  If the point had been made then (as made now) that read-
only is available without, and that those without (thereby recognizing the 
possibility) could ask another dev...  But that was taken care of with my 
original post and other followups, so it's pretty much resolved.

> 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 reasonable enough way to proceed, yes. =:^)

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