[PROJ] Motion: Migrate proj.org to ReadTheDocs

[Howard Butler]

All,

I would like to motion to migrate proj.org <http://proj.org/> from our self-managed GitHub Pages-based deployment to one based on ReadTheDocs (RTD). The new deployment will host multi-versioned content all the way back to 5.0 thanks to Mike Taves. 

As I mentioned in a previous email, the RTD deployment is temporarily pointed at https://pointcloud.org <https://pointcloud.org/> to simulate a domain deployment on OSGeo's DNS infrastructure. When the motion passes, we will simply move the pointer to proj.org <http://proj.org/> The deployment currently has RTD's ad network enabled, but this will be removed once the sponsorship purchase process completes its move through OSGeo. The migration to RTD brings us some useful benefits such as documentation rendering in PRs, convenient multi-versioned doc hosting, and a reduction of our volunteer time consumed by documentation system management. 

PROJ's docs are comprehensive, thorough, and beautiful, and they rival the Snyder book for projection math, examples, and graphics. Thank you to all of the contributors who have helped bring PROJ's docs forward to a much better place [1].

+ 1

Howard


[1] We're a long way past the Trac wiki and some outbound pointers https://web.archive.org/web/20140226080407/trac.osgeo.org/proj 
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