[PROJ] Motion: Migrate proj.org to ReadTheDocs

[Kurt Schwehr]

+0 KurtS

It sounds totally reasonable, the benefits seem cool, and the demo looks
great.
However, I'd like to know a bit more about what is involved with using RTD
for proj.org.


On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 11:22 AM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> +1 Even
>
> And thanks to Howard & Mike for implementing this.
> Le 03/02/2023 à 20:00, Howard Butler a écrit :
>
> All,
>
> I would like to motion to migrate 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 to simulate a domain deployment on
> OSGeo's DNS infrastructure. When the motion passes, we will simply move the
> pointer to 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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