Re: [Nbd] New web site?
On 21 Apr 2016, at 16:45, Wouter Verhelst <w@...112...> wrote:
> 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)
Agree. linuxnbd? nbd-userspace?
> - 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).
Agree
> - 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.
Well the kernel.org mailing lists would be an obvious home.
I believe linuxfoundation runs some too (even for outside
projects). We might finally get rid of the spam.
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Alex Bligh
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