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Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
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WEB: Standardize website/docs footer #48012

Closed datapythonista closed 1 year ago

datapythonista commented 1 year ago

At the moment we've got different footer notes for the website and the docs, and we're discussing adding our hosting sponsor there. Probably worth agreeing what footer we want to use, and standardize it all over.

Current website footer:

pandas is a fiscally sponsored project of NumFOCUS.

Current docs footer:

© Copyright 2008-2022, the pandas development team. Created using Sphinx 4.5.0.

Proposal:

© 2022 NumFOCUS, Inc. Hosted by OVH Cloud

Personally I think this is as concise as possible, with the relevant information. For what I read, since many years it's not really required to have the copyright note in websites. But some sources still recommend it. While many projects use something like Copyright 2022, the pandas team, seems that doesn't make much sense from a legal point of view, as the pandas team is not an organization, and the copyright claim in this case is from NumFOCUS. I think it's nice to have them in the footer anyway.

Any better idea?

mroeschke commented 1 year ago

Maybe © 2022 pandas development team via NumFOCUS, Inc. Hosted by OVH Cloud? IMO from a optics, non-legal, standpoint, just having NumFOCUS sounds like the project is owned by them.

Also for the docs footer, I think it would still be good to keep the Sphinx reference.

datapythonista commented 1 year ago

Fine with me too. But my preference would be to then use pandas via NumFOCUS, Inc. Same idea, but I think it's nice to have something shorter that a first sight seems like a simple copyright note more than something that seems like a full sentence. Maybe just a personal preference, but seems like it may add noise and distract.

mroeschke commented 1 year ago

Sure pandas via NumFOCUS sounds good as well.

phofl commented 1 year ago

Sounds good to me too

FrnRmn commented 1 year ago

Hello! I have updated the web footer as:

© 2022 pandas via NumFOCUS.

However, I can only partially update the docs footer as:

© Copyright 2022 pandas via NumFOCUS. Created using Sphinx 4.5.0.

I'm still trying to understand how to change the latter (quite inexperienced yet). Should I PR only with the web footer changes, or is it better to wait for someone who performs both changes in one PR?

datapythonista commented 1 year ago

Feel free to update the website footer first if you want. We should be signing the agreement for the hosting with OVH very soon, and when it's signed we should also update the OVH part to the footer.

partev commented 1 year ago

Given that copyright notice is no longer required I think the footer would look better and more concise without it. How about:

Sponsored by NumFOCUS. Hosted by OVH Cloud.