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Community documentation of Clojure
http://conj.io
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site is down #270

Open michaelmrose opened 5 years ago

jafingerhut commented 5 years ago

Perhaps Reid McKenzie is no longer maintaining it, and no one else has volunteered to take over the conj.io site?

michaelmrose commented 5 years ago

@arrdem Hi is it a matter of paying for hosting costs or maintenance work? Do you need help with the latter?

arrdem commented 5 years ago

@michaelmrose I'm no longer an active Clojure user or interested in running the site. You'll note that many of my Clojure repositories are archived and I've moved my ongoing hobby work off of github.

Grimoire's costs are paid and I have gainful employment. The server which hosts the site is also used for some other projects, and sent an alert flood a few days ago so it was turned off because I couldn't mitigate at the time. This and the inactivity log on the git repo is an accurate reflection of my ongoing investment in the service.

I've put out a couple calls for folks to take over the service, and would be happy at least to hand off the repo(s) to more interested parties. Although if you do a code audit I doubt you'd actually want them. I have not been able to find a custodian such as Clojurists Together or Clojure Commons to take over the infrastructure despite several conversations to that end at and following Clojure/Conj.

As a general note ClojureDocs has continued to have more daily traffic than Grimoire ever gained by a factor of about 200, so contending that lead seems counterproductive.

I would suggest that backporting the work I did formatting and rewriting examples (drawn originally from ClojureDocs) to ClojureDocs would be a worthwhile and high value project. A couple years ago I tried to submit them in a data format to the ClojureDocs maintainer(s) and that got nowhere.

I would also suggest that there's a lot of improvement(s) to be made to @jafingerhut's excellent cheat sheet (shedding or revisiting the PDF rendering bits to modernize the HTML rendering) - the beginnings of which are actually the last work I did on Grimoire.

Thanks to those of you who helped me, contributed to the project or featured it somewhere over the years - but holding it out doesn't seem to make sense.

arrdem commented 5 years ago

I've updated the service with a HTTP 302 redirect to clojuredocs.org to reflect deprecation.

arrdem commented 5 years ago

Announcement tweet - https://twitter.com/arrdem/status/1144065851370299392