On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Eli Bendersky <eli...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> With respect to Google Blogger, I don't see a good reason to use it as >>> the platform for the blog. >> >> As with any infrastructure, there is a reasonably high cost in >> changing, as people have become used to a certain way of doing things, >> and porting the contents from the old system to the new one requires >> additional effort. >> >> Blogger has its problems, but it typically gets the job done well >> enough (modulo cases like the one currently affecting Doug and his >> team). > > Has the Python insider blog really accumulated enough history and > cruft to make this move problematic? It's a fairly new blog, with not > much content in it. From my blogging experience, Blogger has other > limitations which eventually bite you, and since it's not very > flexible you can either live with it or move to a more flexible > platform. > > All of this completely IMHO, of course. Just friendly advice ;-) > Eli
There is ongoing work for an RFP by the board to improve the python.org publishing system/site to allow us to self-host these things. Moving PSF properties off of it, and onto another "hosted by someone else" site is probably not a good idea, but our hands may be forced if google/blogger can not resolve the issues. jesse _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
