I don't know how long I would count on whoever in the future owns github to
continue hosting *.github.io when some future beancounter reassesses their
margins.
E.g. I'm glad that leoeditor.com wasn't hosted on geocities...
sourceforge... google+...
Even GitLab is mumbling about "inactive" repositories... cue CI/CD script
to auto add new comment periodically.
On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 4:51:52 PM UTC-6 tbp1...@gmail.com wrote:
> I might be willing, but I'm thinking it would be better to have someone
> younger pick it up - you know, better for long-term corporate memory and
> all that. I'd be willing to work on getting it all moved over and working
> if no one else is able to just now.
>
> It seems to me that the content at leoeditor.com could be hosted on
> GitHub at no additional cost. Any non-commercial GitHub project can do
> so. I don't know about linking the domain name to it, but we can work on
> that. If need be, we could change all the documentation links and slowly
> deprecate leoeditor.com. (I don't know how nostalgic you (@edward) feel
> about that domain name)
> On Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 2:11:43 PM UTC-5 Edward K. Ream wrote:
>
>> On Monday, December 26, 2022 at 9:24:05 PM UTC-8 tbp1...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Currently Speed Ream (@Edward's brother, IIUC) is the registered contact
>>> for leoeditor.com and the domain name registrar is Launchpad.com,
>>> according to Whois.com. I don't know where the actual server is, who pays
>>> for it, or who is authorized to put anything on it or modify anything
>>> that's there.
>>>
>>> I wonder if it's time that leoeditor.com be made more available, at
>>> least to actively contributing members of the Leo community. Could there
>>> be a home for the server that doesn't require a periodic payment, for
>>> example? We don't want it to go away if something happens to the wrong
>>> person at the wrong time. And someone outside of {Edward, Speed} needs to
>>> be able to know how to access and administer it.
>>>
>>> Perhaps this is already taken care of, and I just don't know where it's
>>> written up?
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for reminding me of this issue. I have just reopened #480.
>>
>> Iirc there needs to be some close collaboration between Speed and whoever
>> is assigned to make the move. The previous attempt failed--iirc both
>> collaborators were waiting for the other.
>>
>> Thomas, are you willing to take on this project? If so I'll give you
>> Speed's phone and email.
>>
>> Edward
>>
>
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