Re: RFI: Guix XMPP service. paid service?

[Ada Stevenson <adanskana@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 12/14/23 7:36 AM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> jbranso@dismail.de writes:
>
>> I would like to pay $5 a month to have an xmpp account coolawesomeusername@guix.gnu.org
>>
>> Are there other interested parties?  It might be a possible way to generate $$ to continue developing guix.
> I’d rather not commercialize stuff like this, especially not for project
> communication.  I wouldn’t want our servers to cache image,
> video, and audio uploads by “coolawesomeusername” that aren’t related to
> discussing Guix.  Nor would I want to give the impression that
> “coolawesomeusername”’s activities are in any way endorsed by
> guix.gnu.org.  We don’t ache for $5 a month, and giving away autonomy
> over the name and what it is associated with is worth far more than a
> trickle of $5.
>
> In my personal opinion (as an experienced curmudgeon) I think that
> setting things up for commercialization is to invite unspeakable dread
> and rot.

Agreed. Accounts with an official domain like 'guix.gnu.org' should be 
left for very special cases, such as admin accounts or special server 
infrastructure. Upkeeping a XMPP server that caches this data would be a 
little more expensive than usual, but if you use Guix often and want to 
support the project you should very well just donate. (As a digression, 
I do believe that we should promote the link to donate to the project a 
little bit more, perhaps in the IRC and XMPP banners?)

Anyway, hosting a server should be pretty cost efficient. A few 
terabytes would go a long way, and you wouldn't need that much compute 
speed either. An XMPP server would be the least of our worries 
expenditure-wise (we still have to decide whats happening with qa.guix 
and data.guix (!!!!!))

Thanks,

Ada (adanska)