Re: Commit fest?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Gregory Stark wrote:
> >> "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)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 don't need these comments for more than a few weeks --- I don't see a
problem with it.

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