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

[Jacob Kaplan-Moss]

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)
>
> 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.

Alright, I stand corrected; these are technically possible.

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.

> "Move to a new TLD" is much better than "tell people to go elsewhere",
> though.

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.

Jacob