On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:22:36 +0100 Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:48:51 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: > > > >> I know Ben (the peudo-official web maintainer) has been super busy with > >> work and Opensolaris, and has a personal distaste for CMSs (such as the > >> one e.org currently uses, XSM). I believe the whole point of originally > >> moving to a CMS was to allow a much larger group of people to contribute > >> to the site's content, but that hasn't happened yet. > >> > > > > indeed. i am wondering if it ever will. maybe the experiment failed? > > > > > Whether this particular implementation of the experiment failed or not I > think it is unwise to be going back to web-in-cvs as it was far harder > to use! well i'd agree that web in cvs likely is a bad idea again (though benr thinks it was great) :) > >> Finally, I think we need some sort of intro doc on how to use XSM, and > >> a small guideline doc on what goes where on the website. > >> > > > > sure - either that or not use xsm? xsm has been good - it has solved > > problems. it will run much better locally on the same box, but will it > > scale nicely to auto-listing generated tarball snapshots from a directory > > for us? we will need to pre-generate pages from templates in scripts, or do > > them dynamically with php etc. (much like enlightenment.freedesktop.org > > does - its very simple php to collate a set of generated tarballs) > > > XSM supports embedded PHP if you wish. It is switched off by default as > it can represent a huge security hole. This would allow scripts to run > in a properly managed hig-load ready web site. sure - i would only use php for things like auto-generating tables and entries on a page from things like disk contents (put tarballs in a dir - the download page links etc. are generated from that) > >> I know there's a web list, but I first wanted to discuss this here, > >> since it involves possibly moving servers. > >> > >> Let me know what ya'll think. > >> > > > > and finally i'm getting back to it... hooray! :) some of this will be solved > > soon - the question is how to move forward from there? how do we make it > > easier for people to provide news and articles? xsm has not proven > > effective so far in making that happen. what can we do? > > > Is this XSM that has proved ineffective or the CMS genre? (open question > :) ) i really don't know. i am hoping for input. is it because xsm has not been open enough? (don't think so) - is it's ui too hard to use? is it too much - where all we need is a "add news articles and pages" (wiki-style)? is it just that xsm was hard to use because of the slow rsync to sf.net? i am making no claims one way or another EXCEPT that we have not built a willing army of contributors to the website :) > Andy > > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
