[Catalog-sig] Fwd: readthedocs.org or packages.python.org?

[Donald Stufft]

On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Jesse Noller wrote:
> 
> 
> On Feb 6, 2013, at 8:04 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com (mailto:ncoghlan at gmail.com)> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob at jacobian.org (mailto:jacob at jacobian.org)> wrote:
> > > OK I just bought both. If the PSF wants them, I'll transfer them.
> > > Otherwise I'll sit on 'em for a year and then let 'em expire.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Heh, I just did the same thing for "pythonhosted.org (http://pythonhosted.org)". (borrowing the
> > name from Fedora, where the main site is all under fedoraproject.org (http://fedoraproject.org),
> > while fedorahosted.org (http://fedorahosted.org) is their project hosting service. We're only
> > talking about docs hosting, rather than full project hosting, but it's
> > the same general idea).
> > 
> > Personally, what I would love to see happen is:
> > 
> > Near term: packages.python.org (http://packages.python.org) becomes a CNAME to another top-level
> > site (obviously, my suggestion is "pythonhosted.org (http://pythonhosted.org)", since I just
> > bought that for a year in order to be to mention it without worrying
> > about whether or not it would remain available)
> > 
> > Slightly longer term: the pythonhosted.org (http://pythonhosted.org) (or whatever) naming scheme
> > includes subdomains (e.g. six.pythonhosted.org (http://six.pythonhosted.org), in addition to
> > pythonhosted.org/six (http://pythonhosted.org/six))
> > 
> > Even longer term: PyPI offers the option to set up a project's
> > pythonhosted subdomain as a ReadTheDocs reference (using the existing
> > subdomain delegation feature of RTFD)
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Nick.
> > 
> 
> 
> Care not which name we choose I do!
> 
> All sound excellent, and nicks plan sounds great.
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com (mailto:ncoghlan at gmail.com) | Brisbane, Australia
> > 
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+1 on Nick's plan as well. And echoing the sentiment I don't care what name we use. 

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