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

[Jesse Noller]

I don't think we need to transfer the domain to the PSF, but it should definitely be hosted on our cluster at OSU 

On Feb 6, 2013, at 9:22 PM, Richard Jones <richard at python.org> wrote:

> On 7 February 2013 12:42, Donald Stufft <donald.stufft at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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> wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <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". (borrowing the
>> name from Fedora, where the main site is all under fedoraproject.org,
>> while 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 becomes a CNAME to another top-level
>> site (obviously, my suggestion is "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 (or whatever) naming scheme
>> includes subdomains (e.g. six.pythonhosted.org, in addition to
>> 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.
> 
> Yes, thanks Nick (and everyone involved in this discussion!)
> 
> I can chat to Nick offline about how to get this going - I have the
> ability to set up services to support it. Unless we need to transfer
> the domain to the PSF first...
> 
> 
>     Richard