= Сообщение: 5529 из 7124 ====================================== FTSC_PUBLIC = От : Andrew Leary 1:320/219 14 Feb 21 03:28:47 Кому : Alexey Vissarionov 14 Feb 21 03:28:47 Тема : Future of ftsc.org web site FGHI : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=1:320/219@fidonet+6028e568 На : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=2:5020/545+6028a6ab = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP437 ================================== ============================================================================== Hello Alexey!
14 Feb 21 07:27, you wrote to andrew clarke:
AV> These are primarily the git repositories. I'd be happy to use git for AV> all our needs several years ago (when I was a member of the FTSC), but AV> some old farts appeared unable to learn ever more simple things than AV> git and gpg.
I'm certainly open to maintaining the document library via a git repository.
ac>> So to save on hosting costs
AV> I wouldn't go bankrupt whether I'd spend 0.01 RUB on it again. I have AV> a number of servers with a plenty of resources, so those 17 Mb for the AV> ${subj} are very hard to notice in a total load.
ac>> (and the risk of ftsc.org expiring etc)
AV> This is the only real risk.
I've got this under control; the US $16.88 per year is unlikely to bankrupt me either.
ac>> I suggest decomissioning the current FTSC web site and hosting ac>> all the FTSC documents on GitHub, and uploading a snapshot to ac>> Archive.org.
AV> GitHub is distrusted (they are known to wipe whole projects due to AV> politically "unreliable" people rarticipating there), so it could AV> serve only as a mirror. Anyway, to do that we have to start using git, AV> so here's a question: out of all candidates, who is familiar with it?
I'm not officially a candidate yet, but I am familiar with git; I use it for mbsebbs, among other things.
ac>> Then if anyone still wants to go to the trouble of keeping the ac>> ftsc.org domain & web site alive they can redirect web visitors ac>> to the GitHub repo instead.
AV> Fidonet is didstributed, so should be the storage. Git seems to be a AV> good solution, but we should avoid using any and all centralized AV> services.
I don't see an issue with using something such as GitHub or GitLab; however it should not be the only archive for FTSC documents.
AV> Once we had the fidonet.net domain. In order to keep people away from AV> using it as the only source of actual connection information, we had AV> to let it expire (some people, including me, knew all the necessary AV> bank reqs, but nobody had paid for it) and being squatted.
AV> Current ${subj} is a bit unfriendly to a search engines, but it's very AV> friendly to mirroring software like wget. That's not what we could AV> have with git, but it allows anyone to keep their own FTSC documents AV> archive.
True.
ac>> The Wikipedia entry for FidoNet could also point to both the ac>> GitHub repo and archive.org snapshot, since they're fairly ac>> relevant.
AV> Seems unwise. Keeping ftsc.org and adding some mirrors would be mush AV> better.
I agree that the ftsc.org site should be maintained.
ac>> Hosting all the FTSC documents on GitHub would be particularly ac>> useful since it would allow anyone to write bug reports or file ac>> "issues" relating to the various FidoNet standards documents, ac>> which may help any future developers. (Or historians...)
AV> "FidoNet is our primary mode of communication" // (q)
AV> So all reports should go here, to the FTSC_PUBLIC echoarea. Also, git AV> can work over a netmail...
