On 2007-10-23, at 16:41 , Kay Schenk wrote:
Louis--
Thanks for the explanations. I have a feeling some of us, well,
didn't understand this picture at all. And, see further comments
below.
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
All,
There are several things going on and the goal is to make it
easier both for developers and endusers to get and work on
OpenOffice.org.
* homepage redesign : homepage using Collabnet
* portal.openoffice.org: not CollabNet, using Drupal + outside
servers
* users.services.openoffice.org: not collabnet, using outside servers
OK, I, for one would like more elaboration on what you see as the
functional differences in these three pieces. And, where does the
wiki come in? You've identified the pieces but not how they interact.
What makes you think I know ? ;-)
The wiki grew is growing organically. It has supplemented and will
doubtless continue to supplement the site (CN). I'd imagine once we
have a more desirable infrastructure (no idea), it would become less
important and wither. But until then, it's a big bush and will
continue to grow. I'd like for there to be some license information
and architecture there but so far we have basically treated it as a
healthy bush of knowledge.
My opinion is that, well, there shouldn't be the necessity of what
you're calling a "portal" AND a homepage. In other words,
Kay, I agree with you, but as I hinted we *cannot move away from
collabnet* yet, and so the portal is to complement what collabnet
limits us to. So we have to have, for now, the old technology as well
as new.
old technology = home page
new technology = portal
maybe?
yes.
I'm having a bit of a problem with your further discussion of this
below. Or to put it more simple, why couldn't the home page in
essence, BE the portal? When I saw Filip's mockup, I thought
immediately that's where we were going. If not, what functionality
do you envision the portal having vs the home page?
I think you've answered your own question.
We cannot move away from collabnet yet. We must use
www.openoffice.org. That is not the portal. It is too limited.
We can use portal.openoffice.org for downloads. Portal means
downloads plus.
is this clearer? Effectively, the homepage can be a portal. But the
URL "portal.openoffice.org," with the virtual host,
"portal.openoffice.org", is now spoken for and is what I mean by
"portal." Does that clear things up for you?
Put another way, the homepage can be an effective portal to the rest
of the site. But it must use collabnet. However,
"portal.openoffice.org"--what I refer to as "portal"--need not.
best
louis
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