Re: [Nbd] New web site?

[Wouter Verhelst <w@...112...>]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 03:21:45PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> The website on sourceforge was looking a bit tired.
> 
> I moved it over to github pages (currently on my own clone of the repo -
> hence it falsely claims that I am the maintainer at the bottom - will be
> fixed automatically if we take this live). See:
> 
>    http://abligh.github.io/nbd/
> 
> If people like this, I was planning to add some more information about the
> different nbd resources around.

I'm not conceptually opposed to moving the webpage to github pages (or
something similar), but:
- If we're going to do so, we really should be using a github
  organization account for hosting the repository (unfortunately "nbd"
  is, predictably, already taken, so we'll have to use something else),
  rather than continuing to host it in my personal github account.
  (actually, we should do so regardless, if we can think of a proper
  name for the orga account)
- NBD has lived on sourceforge for 15+ years now, and there are many
  locations where people link to the sourceforge URL (magazine articles,
  code comments in other people's NBD implementations, kernel's
  Documentation/blockdev/nbd.txt, etc etc etc). We should update those
  (where possible), and make it clear on the sourceforge page that the
  github page is now canonical somehow (e.g., by using a meta redirect
  or some such).
- If we're going that route, it might make sense to stop using
  sourceforge completely. We'd need to use some other mailinglist stuff.
  I'm not sure google groups is the best option, but surely there are
  other possibilities.

-- 
< ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen
       people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
       and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
 -- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12