Re: proposal: move Kawa web-site to kawa-lang.org

[Andrea Bernardini <andrebask at gmail dot com>]

And having just read you other email, GitLab offers exactly the same
functionality https://pages.gitlab.io/

On 13 November 2016 at 11:53, Andrea Bernardini <andrebask@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Per,
> Changing the kawa-lang.org seems sensible. Another easy way to host a
> static site is the github Pages service. I used that when proposing
> changes to the Kawa website
> (https://andrebask.github.io/kawa-website/).
>
> Cheers,
> Andrea
>
> On 13 November 2016 at 02:11, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> wrote:
>> Currently the URL http://kawa-lang.org redirects to
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/ . I'm thinking maybe we should
>> do it the other way round, and have kawa-lang.org be the official Kawa URL.
>> The main reason is better branding, plus a shorter URl for people to
>> remember/type.
>>
>> The easiest and cheapest in the short term would be to host kawa-lang.org
>> on the same hosting site where I host bothner.com - which is DreamHost.
>> Of course that means it is still dependent on me, though it is possible
>> for me to create other maintainer accounts.  If there is some reason
>> to move it (for example Kawa gets a corporate sponsor) it should be
>> easy to move - it's just some static web pages.
>>
>> If we do this, I'm thinking of doing it right after the move to git, and
>> have it be part of the kawa 2.3 changes.
>>
>> That means the only service remaining at GNU/FSF would be the
>> download (ftp) site.  I see no major reason to move that,
>> though it would be easy to set up ftp.kawa-lang.org hosted using DreamHost.
>>
>> The mailing list(s) can stay on sourceware.org for now.
>> --
>>         --Per Bothner
>> per@bothner.com   http://per.bothner.com/