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

[Jesse Noller]

On Feb 6, 2013, at 8:04 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob at jacobian.org> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Heh, I just did the same thing for "pythonhosted.org". (borrowing the
> name from Fedora, where the main site is all under fedoraproject.org,
> while fedorahosted.org is their project hosting service. We're only
> talking about docs hosting, rather than full project hosting, but it's
> the same general idea).
> 
> Personally, what I would love to see happen is:
> 
> Near term: packages.python.org becomes a CNAME to another top-level
> site (obviously, my suggestion is "pythonhosted.org", since I just
> bought that for a year in order to be to mention it without worrying
> about whether or not it would remain available)
> 
> Slightly longer term: the pythonhosted.org (or whatever) naming scheme
> includes subdomains (e.g. six.pythonhosted.org, in addition to
> pythonhosted.org/six)
> 
> Even longer term: PyPI offers the option to set up a project's
> pythonhosted subdomain as a ReadTheDocs reference (using the existing
> subdomain delegation feature of RTFD)
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick.
> 
> 

Care not which name we choose I do!

All sound excellent, and nicks plan sounds great.



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