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Skriven 2021-02-14 03:28:47 av Andrew Leary (1:320/219)
  Kommentar till text 11961 av Alexey Vissarionov (2:5020/545)
Ärende: Future of ftsc.org web site
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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...

Agreed.

Andrew

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