Re: Vim website hosting

On Mi, 28 Mär 2018, Bram Moolenaar wrote:

> > What is actually needed? Couldn't the vim homepage to without the
> > plugins directory. Github supports labels (e.g. vim-plugin) to mark a
> > repo as a vim plugin. What else do you need dynamic scripts for?

I am not sure I understand the remark about marking/labeling a plugin
and how that is helping us here. Remember there are still many plugins
available, that are not hosted at github.

But for once, it would be a shame to lose all the old uploaded scripts,
karma rating, etc. and currently at least the news items besides the
scripts are stored in a database and probably a bunch of other stuff is
as well.

Third, who is going to translate the current information that is stored
in php files into markdown/static html files? That will be a whole bunch
of work.

Next, I am sure, everybody has his favorite website hosting vendor. But
such a topic has so much bike shedding value, that we can discuss this
for months without even reaching a consensus. So in the end it comes to
Bram to make the final decision and then someone has to do the actual
work.

And finally I am not sure, that making us rely on another single vendor
again is such a clever move now. Github is the sf.net from today. Once
we depend on it, it will make moving to somewhere else even harder. And
who thought that sf.net would become so bad 20 years ago?

> There is no point in having this discussion, since overhauling the
> website is out of scope. As in: it may happen some day, but not now.

Having said all that, I am sure it would be appreciated if someone would
step up and volunteer to redesign the website. But as implied above it
will be a whole bunch of work (without anything to gain anything
personally except some fame) and a redesign will be even more
controversial.

I remember there was discussion about it in the past, but I don't think
anything actually happened.

Best,
Christian
--
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-- François de La Rochefoucault

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