I'm not subbed to this list, so clicked the link from the web UI,
which contains no history/quotes. Sorry!
Just a few points:
* We provide search that is backed by Elastic Search, which provides a
lot more power. We also have more customizations that will allow us to
provide search across projects within the python docs search, if
wanted. So you could also return PEP's, devguide, and other search
results if that was useful.
* Any improvements that we made to RTD in order to better support
Python would also be shared with the Python ecosystem. So instead of
spending time writing build scripts and services, we could be
contributing to an existing project that is widely used in the
community. This would hopefully help us increase developer
contributions to Read the Docs, raising all boats in the community.
* We run on nginx servers, so we can do custom rules for Python if
necessary. This is really useful for things like redirects and custom
headers.
* We automatically generate PDF's, Epub's, and JSON HTML versions of
the docs, which I don't believe is currently happening.
* We have lots of other things that are nice features
(http://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/features.html ), which static
file hosting won't have, and the site is still under active
development. We have servers running behind the code, and in the
future plan to extend things like intersphinx to be much more
powerful, using server based software. Sphinx itself is always limited
in it's design by being a static site, and we remove that requirement
(in a way that is generally additive, so it downgrades to Sphinx).
I would also say that we'd hope the PSF would help fund the site in an
ongoing manner under this arrangement. The PSF has given us grants in
the past for our support of the Python ecosystem, and this would just
cement that relationship even more. By hosting on RTD and supporting
us financially, you'd also be helping support the entire ecosystem.
That said, it isn't a prerequisite for migrating to RTD, but I think
it would make a strong case for sustained funding.
Cheers,
Eric
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Eric Holscher
Maker of the internet residing in Portland, Oregon
http://ericholscher.com
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