[PROJ] Motion: Migrate proj.org to ReadTheDocs

[Kurt Schwehr]

+1 KurtS

Revising my vote after looking
https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/pull/3538 and learning more about read the
docs.

The docs are already amazing, but this is awesome. Thank you to all who
contributed.


On Fri, Feb 3, 2023, 11:40 AM Kurt Schwehr <schwehr at gmail.com> wrote:

> +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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