nornir.tech will expire on May 16th

[dbarrosop]

Hello,
this is not really an issue but I wanted to create one for awareness in the community (or at least those watching the repo).

On May 16th the domain nornir.tech will expire and currently I have no intentions of renewing them. The only implication is that https://nornir.tech will stop working. We have a few solutions here:

1. Abandon the website. The only thing interesting there is https://nornir.tech/nornir/plugins/ and that can easily be added to nornir's README.md
2. Change the domain to the github one (we host this on github pages to something like https://nornir.github.io)
3. Someone covers renewal costs and we postpone this decision until next expiration date. Current renewal costs are 62,98$/year I think.

Anyway, if I don't hear anything or people don't have strong opinions I will probably go with 1 as it's the simplest long term. The only downside to abandoning the domain will be that it will most certainly taken over by some shady website with AI-stolen-and-regurgitated content like it happened with napalm-automation's website.

Regards

[dgarros]

@dbarrosop I'm happy to cover the cost for the dns, I was looking for ways to better support some projects from the community so it's a (small) step in that direction.

[dbarrosop]

Thanks! Honestly, I think it's more about the usefulness of it than the money itself so I'd rather focus on what we think is the best course of action first.

I would personally not miss the website regardless of if we use nornir.tech or the github domain. Other than the occasional plugin being added to the list it's been mostly inactive/abandoned and that plugin list can easily be added to nornir's repo. The only concern will be the AI-generated-crap that will surely take over the site but that happened with nornir-automation and it wasn't a huge deal AFAIK so my vote would be to just scrap the website and move the plugins to the nornir's repo.

[dgarros]

my vote would be to just scrap the website and move the plugins to the nornir's repo. [ ... ]
The only concern will be the AI-generated-crap that will surely take over the site

I agree, I was also thinking about that
To help with the migration, it might be good to renew the domain this time and add a page to indicate that the site has moved to a new address.

[ubaumann]

Long term moving away from the domain makes sense for me too.
Hosting the page on nornir-automation.github.io would be easy but I see the point of just have a README.

For a long time now, I wanted to create a PoC mkdocs project using the multirepo plugin to include all the mkdocs documentation from the plugins. The goal is to have one webpage dynamically include the plugin documentation. But that's providing many challenges and a lot of work.

[dbarrosop]

it might be good to renew the domain this time and add a page to indicate that the site has moved to a new address.

we still have (almost) 3 months so if we want to do this we could add a warning that we are phasing out the website and that they will be redirected to the README.md of the project in 10s. I don't think the content or the importance of the website is big enough to warrant a year long deprecation process :P

The goal is to have one webpage dynamically include the plugin documentation

That's really cool. However, that's probably orthogonal to this issue as that's a completely new thing that could be hosted on the github pages domain. By the way, you may want to "standardize" the docs format for them to be included in the central repo but I suspect you are going to have a lot of fun (not) both in the short term implementing and in the long term dealing with issues XD