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

[Jacob Kaplan-Moss]

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.

Jacob

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 6, 2013, at 7:29 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob at jacobian.org> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:22 PM,  <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>>> There are certainly more options:
>>> - don't use cookies 1: use basic auth instead
>>> - don't use cookies 2: use TLS session IDs instead
>>> - don't use cookies 3: use X.509 certificates instead
>>> - move the login site to a new TLD (e.g. python-cms.org)
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>>> I'm not saying that all these options are practical, I'm just pointing
>>> out that there are definitely more than the three you've mentioned.
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>> Alright, I stand corrected; these are technically possible.
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>> Again, because I have a financial stake here I don't feel I can argue
>> for any particular solution without an accusation of bias. Instead
>> I'll simply ask you to read about the goals of the redesign (start
>> from http://jessenoller.com/blog/2012/11/28/the-great-python-org-redesign,
>> where you can find the RFP and the bid which became the working spec
>> document) and think about which solutions to the packages.python.org
>> problem best match the goals of the python.org redesign.
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>>> "Move to a new TLD" is much better than "tell people to go elsewhere",
>>> though.
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>> pypidocs.org and pypifiles.org are both available (as are the .com
>> versions). If anyone's even slightly interested let me know and I'll
>> buy them and donate them to the PSF, just in case.
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> Both are good and could also act as mirror sub domains. Donald can go into the issues with hosting the mirrors on their current domains
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>> Jacob
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