Hi to all, We've had quite an intense debate regarding the proposed new website. I've tried to extract the main technical comments expressed in the ML to to determine the current state, fix any misunderstanding and try to establish a constructive thread: ------------------------- ------------------------- 1) Repository: the website code was hosted in cppalliance's github. It was transferred to boostorg. I understand this as an improvement as it's in the same level as other boost libraries. 2) License: Before transferring it to boostorg, a request to change the license to BSL was made. The license change was announced on February 21, and boost.io says it's BSL, so I guess it's solved now. Source files in the repo (https://github.com/boostorg/website-v2) have no copyright notice, I don't think it's something that is required, but usually all Boost source files have the notice and point to the license. I'm not a lawyer, but if the site is open source, anyone can fork and improve it, and ownership and copyright of the source code follows the standard Boost practices (BSL). Anyone with enough technical expertise can put up a server with the original or forked code and re-run the site in case of cpp.al goes away or if there are disagreements. 3) Privacy Policy: There was a comment about information from third parties and the use of Google Analytics, location data... AFAIK there is a new privacy policy page (https://www.boost.io/privacy/), which does not mention any location data and says a notification will be sent to registered users on any change. There is a issue to implement account deletion (https://github.com/boostorg/website-v2/issues/965) opened by Vinnie, so it should be implemented soon. 4) Terms of use: It was suggested that there needed to be a page like "Terms of Use" composed with help of a lawyer. AFAIK there is a new page (https://www.boost.io/terms-of-use/) that is much simpler and easier to read than the original. I'm not sure if Andrey's comments are addressed with the new TOU. Andrey, it's ok now? 5) GDPR: A issue was filed (https://github.com/boostorg/website-v2/issues/960), and there was a discussion in the ML about not having any analytics tool to avoid cookie banners or a couple of analytic tools that were compliant with GDPR. The github issue was resolved stating that: - Google Analytics was removed and Plausible was deployed (e.g. no cookies. IP addresses are anonymized with a hash function and rotating salt value), - YouTube Embed on the homepage was changed to an external link to the video. I understand that with those changes the site is GDPR-compliant. Is that right? 6) Moderation: We had a discussion about how moderation should be performed in the site (mainly as an anti-spam mechanism) and how it's implemented now in the mailing list (volunteers). My understanding is that the new website has some moderation tools so that anyone can submit news, etc... and that the same ML method (volunteers blessed in the ML) should be used to appoint the moderators for the site (not necessarily the same people that moderate the ML). ------------------------- ------------------------- I don't know if this summary is accurate, the aim was synthesize several ML threads into a single post, certainly I could be wrong on several points, please correct me in that case. Now the next question is: *What's missing technically so that the new website can to live?* If technically we have an agreement or we are near that, then we can: - Know if there are non-technical aspects that need to be ironed out. - Know if there is any alternative to be discussed and compared with the proposed website. If so, let's put it on the table, review and compare it. - Schedule a plan so that Boost can have a new modern website soon. Does this make sense? Best, Ion