hosting piccolo2d.org

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Will has been generously donating piccolo2d.org hosting (plus .net and .com) 
for ~5 years now and wants to step back.

As I think the piccolo2d.org is a good landing page IMO we should keep it.

The current website requires a webserver serving static files. The server runs 
a cronjob doing svn updates every 4h.
No php/db/etc. needed. See 
https://code.google.com/p/piccolo2d/wiki/WebSiteHowTo#Deployment

Alternative: simply redirect http://piccolo2d.org/ to 
https://piccolo2d.googlecode.com/svn/site/index.html

What do you guys think?

Anybody stepping forward to host it? Renewal will be due 2014-06-14.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mr0...@mro.name on 28 Jun 2013 at 3:06

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If I remember correctly we wanted to host piccolo2d.org site content from 
google code svn but either checking it all into svn was too slow and/or there 
wasn't enough space available from google code for the repository to allow it.

The fact that the site is available at

https://piccolo2d.googlecode.com/svn/site/learn/index.html

is new to me (or perhaps I have forgotten); why not just implement the redirect?

Original comment by heue...@gmail.com on 28 Jun 2013 at 3:40

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there's 3 (maybe minor) downsides to the redirect

- lengthy urls in the address bar when browsing piccolo2d.org,
- directory links don't resolve to index.html but list the directory,
- no more 'staging' area ;-)

Original comment by mr0...@mro.name on 28 Jun 2013 at 3:49

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Original comment by heue...@gmail.com on 26 Nov 2013 at 11:22

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Hello,
I was using Piccolo2D in some of my private projects and currently I'm working 
on a commercial software that will use Piccolo2D to show a simple graphical 
scene.

I have a Linux VSP on linode.com in London, that is currently serving two web 
sites.
- www.anr-institute.com
- www.mueller-public.de

I would be willing to pay for the piccolo2d.org domain and setup the 
documentation of piccolo2d on my server. 

Are you willing to update the Piccolo2D documentation on 
piccolo2d.org/index.html ?
Or are you going to use code.google.com Wiki for the documentation?
Do you want to change the documentation to a Wiki (like Mediawiki) or do you 
want to continue to use static HTML files?

Regards, Erwin.

Original comment by erwin.mu...@gmail.com on 7 Jul 2014 at 9:47

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Hello Erwin,

Sorry for not following up on this sooner.  If you are still willing to host 
the documentation, the Piccolo2D project would be happy to take you up on your 
offer.

Unfortunately I don't actually know the details of how the rsync was set up, I 
just committed documentation to the svn repository and it showed up on 
www.piccolo2d.org.  This wiki page is the best we have to go on

https://code.google.com/p/piccolo2d/wiki/WebSiteHowTo#Deployment

Original comment by heue...@gmail.com on 31 Jul 2014 at 3:34

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There just never was a rsync.

However, as mentioned on 
https://code.google.com/p/piccolo2d/wiki/WebSiteHowTo#Deployment, a cron job 
running on the webserver doing a svn update every 4h.

Does the description on the wiki page need clarification?

The piccolo2d.org served as a landing page with all the infrequently changing 
content and pointed here (google code) for all 'dynamic' stuff - code, wiki, 
issues, tarballs.

Original comment by mr0...@mro.name on 8 Aug 2014 at 11:09

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piccolo2d.org went to japan on september 6th:

Domain Name:PICCOLO2D.ORG
Domain ID: D173857600-LROR
Creation Date: 2014-09-06T14:30:16Z
Updated Date: 2014-09-15T10:55:34Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2015-09-06T14:30:16Z
Sponsoring Registrar:UDomainName.com LLC (R1571-LROR)
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 931
WHOIS Server:
Referral URL:
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited
Registrant ID:a9n8gb68okr6drgv
Registrant Name:Naohiro Arita
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: Kouhoku-ku Shinyokohama 2-15-10 5F CIMALINK
Registrant City:Yokohama-shi
Registrant State/Province:KANAGAWA-KEN
Registrant Postal Code:2220033
Registrant Country:JP
Registrant Phone:+81.08012594885
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email:arimaru90@hotmail.com
Admin ID:a9n8gb68okr6drgv
Admin Name:Naohiro Arita
Admin Organization:
Admin Street: Kouhoku-ku Shinyokohama 2-15-10 5F CIMALINK
Admin City:Yokohama-shi
Admin State/Province:KANAGAWA-KEN
Admin Postal Code:2220033
Admin Country:JP
Admin Phone:+81.08012594885
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email:arimaru90@hotmail.com
Tech ID:a9n8gb68okr6drgv
Tech Name:Naohiro Arita
Tech Organization:
Tech Street: Kouhoku-ku Shinyokohama 2-15-10 5F CIMALINK
Tech City:Yokohama-shi
Tech State/Province:KANAGAWA-KEN
Tech Postal Code:2220033
Tech Country:JP
Tech Phone:+81.08012594885
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax:
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email:arimaru90@hotmail.com

Kinda sad.

Original comment by mr0...@mro.name on 30 Sep 2014 at 8:45

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so this becomes a 'wont fix' as there's no more piccolo2d.org.

Original comment by mr0...@mro.name on 30 Sep 2014 at 8:46

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I'm afraid WontFix applies across the board at this point.

Original comment by heue...@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2014 at 3:42

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P.S.: piccolo2d.net went to a domain grabber in switzerland who wants to press 
USD 900 and piccolo2d.com went to China. 

As they're all gone (forever and due to lack of care, I may add) I set up an 
unofficial mirror on a subdomain of mine at http://piccolo2d.mro.name. The 
procedure of updating remains as it ever was.

Original comment by mr0...@mro.name on 1 Oct 2014 at 8:36

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P.P.S.: I changed some of the references to .org now pointing to .mro.name. See 
r1264 and r1265 and 'Links' in the 'Administer' section.

However, please consider http://piccolo2d.mro.name a mere emergency refuge so 
as we have a location to point to at all. I don't claim ownership nor do I 
promise long-term hosting.

Original comment by mr0...@mro.name on 2 Oct 2014 at 8:00

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@mr0738 thank you for stepping up with a workaround.

Original comment by heue...@gmail.com on 2 Oct 2014 at 2:26

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I see very little publishing activity by the new owner of http://piccolo2d.org.

Maybe it's worth while to contact him and tell him about our grief having lost 
the domain and kindly ask him to - if he ever wants to get rid of it - consider 
handing it over to one of us in case.

What do you guys think? And if so, anybody who could help translate to 
japanese? Or polish the english version?

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Sounds good to me; I'll start an email thread.

Original comment by heue...@gmail.com on 8 Jan 2015 at 7:10