> On Feb 4, 2023, at 8:49 AM, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm not PSC so I know I don't get to vote, but:
>
> I am unclear on if this means we are relying on non-Free software, vs
> something osgeo could host entirely with Free software and is just going
> to pay for service. If it involves non-Free software I am -1.
The service infrastructure of RTD is not completely open source, but quite a
bit of it is. Most of its CPU and network is donated. See
https://readthedocs.org/sustainability/ for details.
> I am -1 on any ads appearing, even for a brief time, on anything pointed
> to officially (vs a staging/proof-of-concept server). Ads are one
> thing, but presumably these are targeted ads that are privacy invasive.
> I am guessing this is in the US and hence no rules but it strikes me as
> bad practice for osgeo to operate/condone anything that isn't also GDPR
> compliant. Same thing for google analytics (or anything that leads to
> data being captured by a company that engages in invasive advertising).
I think people might not realize how much positive impact RTD has had on open
source documentation infrastructure. PROJ was using an adaptation of the RTD
theme when I first released the Sphinx-based docs. A very large number of open
source projects leverage it to provide document generation and hosting. There's
a safety-in-numbers aspect to RTD as well as the fact that it works very well
in comparison to running your own thing. That consumes contributor effort and
doesn't benefit from a larger audience having shared experience with RTD as
opposed to individual custom setups like we have with PROJ. I totally get that
this is the same argument for GitHub, and people have just as big a problem
with that too...
As far as ads go, does your ad blocker not work for some reason? :) We can wait
to move the DNS until OSGeo completes the purchase to allow us to shut off the
ads.
Howard
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