[$] Some challenges for GNOME online accounts

The cynical among us might be tempted to think that an announcement from
the GNOME project about the removal of a feature — a relatively unused
feature at that — would be an unremarkable
event. In practice, though, Debarshi Ray's announcement that the GNOME Online
Accounts (GOA)
subsystem would no longer support the 'documents' access point touched off
a lengthy discussion within the project itself. The resulting discussion
revealed a few significant problems with GOA and, indeed, with the concept
of online-account management in any sort of open-source umbrella project
like GNOME.