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

[Donald Stufft]

On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Richard Jones wrote:
> On 7 February 2013 08:00, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com (mailto:jnoller at gmail.com)> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> > > So all-in-all, if we marget packages.p.o. and RTD somehow, then the
> > > functionality of RTD must be enhanced, which may not be what the RTD
> > > people want?
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > I am sure I can talk to the maintainers (we're friends) and if anything, happily pay them for the support we need.
> 
> While expanding the scope of RTD seems like a good idea (pending
> agreement by the maintainers) I wonder what it is that we're actually
> achieving?
> 
> Currently with RTD and packages.python.org (http://packages.python.org) we've got two free,
> easy-to-use services for hosting documentation.
> 
> I believe our goal should be to make it easier for projects to provide
> documentation.
> 
> If RTD was made to accept setuptools* upload_docs pushes (implying
> also that they host arbitrary content) then it could be a replacement
> for packages.python.org (http://packages.python.org) eventually. There'd be some transition pain
> though (especially if users of upload_docs didn't notice.)
> 
> Either way both are linked from PyPI, both are good Google juice, ...
> 
> I guess one of the benefits of merging is that the PSF only has one
> such service to maintain - although to be honest the burden of
> maintaining packages.python.org (http://packages.python.org) runs to about one support issue a year
> - a pittance compared to PyPI :-)
> 
> 
> Richard
> 
> * yes, I keep forgetting to look into getting that into distutils core
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