<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">First of all, good job on this Howard and Mike. Thanks for taking the lead and following through with both the admin and grunt work!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>I too am +0 for this but it can easily be turned into a +1:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">RTD is great and the doc versioning is a killer feature. In light of Alan’s previous experiencing I’d like to have a basic contingency plan in case RTD turns out to not be great fit for the project in the long run. Returning back to GitHub Pages is the obvious solution to that problem. How big a pain is it to redirect <a href="http://proj.org" class="">proj.org</a> away from RTD again if things turn south?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">/Kristian<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 3 Feb 2023, at 23.19, Alan Snow <<a href="mailto:alansnow21@gmail.com" class="">alansnow21@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">+0<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">A few years ago, I had a less than great experience with RTD due to instability and lack of ability to be able to fix underlying issues with a highly constrained environment. I have found not using it to be a painless experience. However, it seems like they have been actively developing it and it does have some nice features. So, it is likely worth trying out.</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 3, 2023, 2:46 PM Charles Karney <<a href="mailto:charles.karney@gmail.com" class="">charles.karney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">+1<br class="">
Charles<br class="">
<br class="">
On 2/3/23 14:00, Howard Butler wrote:<br class="">
> All,<br class="">
> <br class="">
> I would like to motion to migrate <a href="http://proj.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">proj.org</a> <<a href="http://proj.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://proj.org</a>> from our <br class="">
> self-managed GitHub Pages-based deployment to one based on ReadTheDocs <br class="">
> (RTD). The new deployment will host multi-versioned content all the way <br class="">
> back to 5.0 thanks to Mike Taves.<br class="">
> <br class="">
> As I mentioned in a previous email, the RTD deployment is temporarily <br class="">
> pointed at <a href="https://pointcloud.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://pointcloud.org</a> <<a href="https://pointcloud.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://pointcloud.org</a>> to simulate a <br class="">
> domain deployment on OSGeo's DNS infrastructure. When the motion passes, <br class="">
> we will simply move the pointer to <a href="http://proj.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">proj.org</a> <<a href="http://proj.org/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://proj.org</a>> The <br class="">
> deployment currently has RTD's ad network enabled, but this will be <br class="">
> removed once the sponsorship purchase process completes its move through <br class="">
> OSGeo. The migration to RTD brings us some useful benefits such as <br class="">
> documentation rendering in PRs, convenient multi-versioned doc hosting, <br class="">
> and a reduction of our volunteer time consumed by documentation system <br class="">
> management.<br class="">
> <br class="">
> PROJ's docs are comprehensive, thorough, and beautiful, and they rival <br class="">
> the Snyder book for projection math, examples, and graphics. Thank you <br class="">
> to all of the contributors who have helped bring PROJ's docs forward to <br class="">
> a much better place [1].<br class="">
> <br class="">
> + 1<br class="">
> <br class="">
> Howard<br class="">
> <br class="">
> <br class="">
> [1] We're a long way past the Trac wiki and some outbound pointers <br class="">
> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140226080407/trac.osgeo.org/proj" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://web.archive.org/web/20140226080407/trac.osgeo.org/proj</a> <br class="">
> <<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140226080407/trac.osgeo.org/proj" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://web.archive.org/web/20140226080407/trac.osgeo.org/proj</a>><br class="">
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