+1 On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Eric Holscher <e...@ericholscher.com> wrote:
> I'm not subbed to this list, so clicked the link from the web UI, > which contains no history/quotes. Sorry! > > Just a few points: > > * We provide search that is backed by Elastic Search, which provides a > lot more power. We also have more customizations that will allow us to > provide search across projects within the python docs search, if > wanted. So you could also return PEP's, devguide, and other search > results if that was useful. > * Any improvements that we made to RTD in order to better support > Python would also be shared with the Python ecosystem. So instead of > spending time writing build scripts and services, we could be > contributing to an existing project that is widely used in the > community. This would hopefully help us increase developer > contributions to Read the Docs, raising all boats in the community. > * We run on nginx servers, so we can do custom rules for Python if > necessary. This is really useful for things like redirects and custom > headers. > * We automatically generate PDF's, Epub's, and JSON HTML versions of > the docs, which I don't believe is currently happening. > * We have lots of other things that are nice features > (http://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/features.html), which static > file hosting won't have, and the site is still under active > development. We have servers running behind the code, and in the > future plan to extend things like intersphinx to be much more > powerful, using server based software. Sphinx itself is always limited > in it's design by being a static site, and we remove that requirement > (in a way that is generally additive, so it downgrades to Sphinx). > > I would also say that we'd hope the PSF would help fund the site in an > ongoing manner under this arrangement. The PSF has given us grants in > the past for our support of the Python ecosystem, and this would just > cement that relationship even more. By hosting on RTD and supporting > us financially, you'd also be helping support the entire ecosystem. > That said, it isn't a prerequisite for migrating to RTD, but I think > it would make a strong case for sustained funding. > > Cheers, > Eric > > -- > Eric Holscher > Maker of the internet residing in Portland, Oregon > http://ericholscher.com > _______________________________________________ > core-workflow mailing list > core-workflow@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/core-workflow > This list is governed by the PSF Code of Conduct: > https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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