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

[Jesse Noller]

On Feb 6, 2013, at 7:29 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob at jacobian.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 

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



> Jacob
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