[PROJ] Motion: Migrate proj.org to ReadTheDocs

[Charles Karney]

+1
Charles

On 2/3/23 14:00, Howard Butler wrote:
> 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 
> <https://web.archive.org/web/20140226080407/trac.osgeo.org/proj>
> 
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