On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Murray Cumming <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 10:56 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Paul Cutler >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'd like to propose that we follow up on Vincent's comments and form a >> > small team to investigate if any other solutions might be a better >> > fit. It's possible in the last 2 1/2 years the technology and the >> > members in the community might have changed enough that we might want >> > to think about choosing a new CMS, based on the original requirements >> > at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/CmsRequirements. My first instinct >> > would be to evaluate Plone, Midgard (as it came in #2 last time ) and >> > Drupal (as it seems to have grown greatly in its use over the last >> > couple of years, and the major reason it wasn't chosen was i18n which >> > may have changed in this time). >> >> This may qualify as bikeshedding but I'd also suggest looking at >> elgg.org (a GPL-licensed social networking platform). It isn't a >> traditional CMS by any stretch, so might be quickly dismissable as not >> meeting most of the requirements, but it might be worth rethinking >> what gnome.org would look like if it were primarily a tool for a gnome >> *community*. > > I think it's clear that feature creep won't help get this (should be) > simple job done.
I assume that it is not actually a simple job, since it has now taken seven years and ground down the spirits and motivation of several very good people in the process. So I thought maybe taking a different approach to the problem (or at least thinking about it from a different perspective) might be useful. If it is in fact a simple job, and something else is preventing it from happening, then by all means ignore the suggestion- you know I'm the first one to say 'simplify, simplify, simplify' when it is appropriate. Luis _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
