No objections from me -Jake
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Any objections to me making a copy of the site > tree alongside it called cms-site? I'd like to > get cracking on knocking up the supporting perl > for this so we can continue to brainstorm... > > > > > > On Sunday, March 16, 2014 1:53 PM, Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > On Sunday, March 16, 2014 1:40 PM, Jake Farrell <jfarr...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > Hey Joe > >> Thanks for reaching out, we chose to go with a site generator over the > >> Apache CMS due to it initially not meeting all of our needs. Our current > >> needs for the site are > >> > >> - Markdown to html conversion > > > > > > That one's easy- its the default for the cms. > > > > > >> - Global variables/config usable throughout in a template based layout > > > > > > Easy too- just create a perl hash somewhere and make it available to > your views. > > Code your views to pass that hash along to your templates and you are > all set. > > Note if your hash contains objects you can make method calls on them in > your > > templates. Note: while I wouldn't recommend this in general, for smaller > > projects like thrift that prefer convenience over separation of concerns > you can > > have the django template engine do a pass over your markdown before > passing it > > along to your actual template page, just as is seemingly common to other > popular > > site generation software. > > > > > >> - Syntax highlighting > > > > > > Comes with python's markdown support, but some people prefer the look of > > javascript highlighters. > > > >> - Easily include code snippets from our source code base > > > > > > Statically I hope. No idea how to pull snippets out of your git repo > via the > > cms. > > > >> - Ability to locally test before committing > > > > > > Belt and suspenders with the cms- you can build your changes before > committing > > with the build scripts, browse your changes before committing via the cms > > webgui, or simply commit your changes and view the staging site prior to > live > > publication (which is a separate step). > > > > > > > >> > >> -Jake > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Joe Schaefer > > <joe_schae...@yahoo.com>wrote: > >> > >>> As it so happens I am interested in working on supporting > >>> thrift's use case as a potential user of the Apache CMS. > >>> While the CMS works well for massive projects there are > >>> things it could do better at supporting for more moderate > >>> sized sites like thrift's. > >>> > >>> I'd therefore like to engage you folks in a brainstorming session > >>> about what sorts of features you want for your site and to find > >>> simple ways of supporting those features for you. > >>> > >>> Thanks. > >> > >> > >> > > >
