Speaking of backups ... do we backup the sage-devel, sage-support news groups? It contains a lot of stuff that loses relevance with time, but every now and again there are discussions that contain important bits of information. In fact, they are sometimes referred to on trac, via super-opaque URLs. So I suspect google groups going down (which is probably a less unlikely event than github ending) would actually damage those links irretrievably.
I recognize that we have limited resources for backing up stuff. We should be using our resources and time in a smart way to back up things that will have most effect. But it's probably worth it for someone to spend a bit of to determine how to back up sage-devel (that's easy going forward since it can just send email digests; and someone may have been storing those already) and how to refer to threads -- perhaps a date is better than a URL -- as long as we can have a list archive that allows searching by date (I'm not so sure google's web interface allows it), and then perhaps draw the conclusion that it's not worth the effort to archive? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/ef44f7bf-5b78-43c2-897f-694cad213861n%40googlegroups.com.
