Just searched through the wave-dev mailing list archives. Gravatar was briefly discussed (for profile information storage, including avatar image) at the end of year 2010, but there doesn't seem to be negative comments about it: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-wave-dev/201012.mbox/%[email protected]%3E
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Zachary “Gamer_Z.” Yaro <[email protected]>wrote: > Have you looked through past mailing list discussions to see if the change > was previously rejected? I feel like I remember something about Gravatar > being discussed in the past. > > —Zachary “Gamer_Z.” Yaro > On Jun 6, 2013 6:28 PM, "Bruno Gonzalez (aka stenyak)" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Shall it be committed to trunk then? > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Ali Lown <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Upon inspection of the codebase history, I wonder if I am now > > > imagining the avatars being disabled, as I don't see a commit which > > > would have done so... > > > > > > Ali > > > > > > On 6 June 2013 20:00, Bruno Gonzalez (aka stenyak) <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > There seems to exist a changeset that enables rendering of avatars in > > the > > > > wave panel (top-right side), instead of the current text-only list of > > > > participants. > > > > > > > > Ali mentioned gravatar used to be enabled for participant list, but > at > > > some > > > > point it got disabled. > > > > > > > > Since the code is easy to integrate back (just 2 line changes), I'm > > > > interested in knowing what the reasons were for disabling it in the > > first > > > > place. > > > > > > > > I could understand not wanting to depend on third parties ( > > gravatar.com > > > ), > > > > but given that we are *already* using gravatar for the search panel > > > > avatars, this is most probably not the reason. > > > > > > > > Does anyone remember anything about this? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Saludos, > > > > Bruno González > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Jabber: stenyak AT gmail.com > > > > http://www.stenyak.com > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Saludos, > > Bruno González > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Jabber: stenyak AT gmail.com > > http://www.stenyak.com > > > -- Saludos, Bruno González _______________________________________________ Jabber: stenyak AT gmail.com http://www.stenyak.com
