On Sep 11, 2006, at 11:12 AM, Michael Jennings wrote: > On Monday, 11 September 2006, at 11:04:13 (-0700), > Blake Barnett wrote: > >> I don't think it's even worth discussing going back to the old >> CVS/HTML setup. The point is to encourage _casual_ contribution, >> not to make it hard, which it seems like that's all we've done so >> far. > > CVS has several advantages: > - Account management is only in one spot (CVS write access)
And it requires giving everyone who wants to add a simple little news item access to everything in CVS (should normally be a problem... but.) > - Ben R. will use it (who singlehandedly did more site updates in the > average month than XSM has seen in its entire lifespan on E.org) Ben is quite fond of Ruby and Rails. Here's a quote from his blog: "But the appeal of Ruby is just unresistable and I admit I'm headed in that direction more and more all the time." > - Still serves static pages Ruby can serve static pages, for that matter, what web server can't? > - Site could auto-update periodically from CVS So could a Rails site. > - Developers are comfortable with the process Rephorm made his site in Rails, so did Atmos. Tilman is quite comfortable with it. Add to that, Eugen, me, and I'm sure quite a few others... > - No more CMS wars (!!) Rails is not a CMS. > - Gobs and gobs of tools exist to work with CVS in any number of ways For building a website?!?! > - Translates easily to any SCM system > - Revision control for web content with the same features as code! This is silly. Content revision control is quite easy to do. See: acts_as_revisioned heh > > And let's face it: Getting write access to CVS is easier now than > it's EVER been. Assuming the person granting you access doesn't screw > up, of course... :-) It's silly to get CVS access to do web updates. Welcome to 2006. -Blake ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
