[$] Some challenges for GNOME online accounts

The cynical among us might be tempted to think that an announcement fromthe GNOME project about the removal of a feature - a relatively unusedfeature at that - would be an unremarkableevent. In practice, though, Debarshi Ray's announcement that the GNOME OnlineAccounts (GOA)subsystem would no longer support the "documents" access point touched offa lengthy discussion within the project itself. The resulting discussionrevealed a few significant problems with GOA and, indeed, with the conceptof online-account management in any sort of open-source umbrella projectlike GNOME.