Re: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] Fwd: Re: [Tools-discuss] Etherpad no longer on standard port

[Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>]

On 3/6/20 4:46 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
>>> I repeat my ceterum censeo that hackmd/CodiMD is a viable candidate, 
>>> but
>
>> This looks like it would be easy to deploy to me and it passes a 
>> first sniff-test at keeping it going.
>>
>> I was able to do a one-click deploy in heroku, and tweaking options 
>> to make it be fairly wide open was simple.
>>
>> By default, it requires some simple registration (it allows 
>> on-instance registration with an email address that it doesn't 
>> verify). In the long run, it could be made to require datatracker 
>> credentials with what I currently think isn't a _lot_ of work 
>> (depending on the current quality of the django libraries to 
>> facilitate becoming an OAUTH2 provider).
>
> HackMD is a commercial product from hackmd.io.  That doesn't make it 
> impossible, and the price doesn't look ridiculous, but it does mean 
> that it'd needs a a budget from the LLC if we want to use it beyond 
> testing.

CodiMD is a free and open subset of HackMD, and that's what I've tried 
running. Didn't require budget. I don't think we would need the full 
hackmd for what the kinds of things we've been doing with etherpad.

RjS

>
> Regards,
> John Levine, [e-mail], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for 
> Dummies",
> Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly