I actually put it on GitHub in the end?I didn't want that to
distract people from the naming question. Reality is that, wherever
it's hosted, we'd need a GitHub mirror for visibility.
Yes. It has come to that.
Ironically, this is all (for now) just documentation stuff. There's
still no free-software 'default place' for that.
Just like for ages, there's been no free-software defaultplace for starting a mailing list... So people use Google Groups.
In both cases, the export tools are quite good, and you can (AFAIR) access them without needing to surrender personal info. But it bothers me at a fundamental level that the FOSS community has no solution to these long-standing problems.
Way back in the day, I had a conversation with some SPI folks about it, and they had contemplated doing something on the mailing-list front, but it evidently never advanced (perhaps for extremely good reasons; running a massive list server can't be cheap or easy).
Just like for ages, there's been no free-software defaultplace for starting a mailing list... So people use Google Groups.
In both cases, the export tools are quite good, and you can (AFAIR) access them without needing to surrender personal info. But it bothers me at a fundamental level that the FOSS community has no solution to these long-standing problems.
Way back in the day, I had a conversation with some SPI folks about it, and they had contemplated doing something on the mailing-list front, but it evidently never advanced (perhaps for extremely good reasons; running a massive list server can't be cheap or easy).