Murray Cumming wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 18:07 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > [snip] >> I have a >> different approach to the solution: Lets install a readily available CMS, >> like >> Joomla, plug it into our existing LDAP account system, make it easy for >> everyone with commit access to create a web password and edit. Then we can >> mobilize the hundreds of our volunteers to keep the website up to date >> instead >> of looking for The One. > > That's as likely to make things worse as to make them better, and it's > likely to lock us into something before we've thought properly about > whether that's what we want. For instance, it would make it even more > difficult to eventually have a website whose content can be translated > as easily as our GNOME desktop application and documentation text.
Do we absolutely need that feature? I'm very doubtful of people jumping at it and actually translating more than, say, 5 pages. > I'd be particularly worried about using any CMS that didn't let us see the > changes that all these hundreds of people made day to day. Details? Isn't Plone development open? What has frightened me about the Plone plan is that when I read messages about it, it's always about coding and making changes in Plone itself, while I had expected it to be customization and configuration for GNOME's use. What's so different about GNOME's requirements needing so much changes in an off-the-shelf CMS? > At the moment, I am > 1. Assuming that the Plone effort will fail again, or take > time-approaching-infinity > to get even a test site up. > 2. Doing what I can to help the Plone people to help us, in case I am wrong > about 1. > 3. Trying to get the structure and content out of the Plone system so I can > archive it, > and then just reorganize the existing gnomweb-wml stuff to match it. That way > we will > not have lost that result from the whole process, though we won't have the > advantages > of the real Plone system. > > At the moment, I am the only person doing any of this, and I've been doing it > as a > follow-on from Quim's previous leadership, with his consent. Of course the > board is > free to ask me to step aside and do nothing instead. I do have other things > to do. Doh, no, why? I'm glad there's some website cleanup is coming out of this even if the Plone thing doesn't arrive anytime soon. Thanks, behdad > Murray > > _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
