Re: Mirrors and code hosting

[Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025, at 12:33 AM, dana wrote:
> On Fri 19 Sep 2025, at 11:57, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
>> Codeberg seems to be a good and popular choice these days. Someone
>> registered "zsh" on it not long ago. Would be good to know if that was
>> someone here or if we've lost the chance to use that.
>
> i missed 'zsh' by less than a week but i did get 'zsh-org' and
> 'zsh-users' for continuity with gitlab and github
>
> if we do like codeberg, and the 'zsh' person doesn't step forward

Perhaps Codeberg itself could assist with this?  Back when I was
more actively involved with MacPorts, I squatted "macports" on
GitHub on a whim but didn't tell anyone.  When the project decided
to move to GitHub, they must have contacted someone there because
an employee emailed me asking if I'd be willing to give up the
username.

> we could carry on with one of those

I think it would look really amateurish for us to have to resort
to "zsh-org" or "zsh-users" as our official name.  Maybe I'm putting
too much weight on it, but to me it would feel worse than staying
on SourceForge, especially if we consolidate the website at zsh.org.

Maybe you could grab "zshell" at least?  (I just registered "zsh"
on SourceHut, just in case.)

> the mirrors seem like w/e, since they're just source distributions i
> assume 95% of visitors don't care about them either way

Presumably various distros have their own mirrors too.

> it would be nice if we could avoid breaking the links to the actual docs
> if at all possible. searchability is already kind of sub-optimal, it
> would be a shame to make it worse. we could end up like bash where most
> searches return absolutely nothing from the actual documentation unless
> you explicitly add 'manual' to the search terms (sometimes not even
> then)
>
>
> btw, maybe this is too ot, but i've always wished that our documentation
> was versioned, similar to how postgres does it:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/index.html
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/index.html
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/index.html
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/index.html
> etc

+1 to all of this.

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vq