Gour wrote:
Well, I consider more important to first decide resolve about "why"
rather than "how" ("When there is a will, there is a way." :-) i.e. do
we need/want CMS like Drupal or not. Then, I'm sure we can sort out how
to install it. I personally install some older Drupal on my localhost,
but I'm ready to help (both wiki & CMS has to be maintained).
Personally I quite like the idea of using a CMS for haskell.org, but
there needs to be enough effort available to make it fly and keep it
flying, and I just don't see that yet.
By looking at Drupal's site I've noticed that DocBook export module will
be in 4.7 (atm in beta3.) and if you check
http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/book it sounds interesting (there was
lot of talk to e.g. keep DocBook format for GHC).
And, as I wrote earlier, CMS brings forums and some other features, it's
not just more powered-wiki, so let's decide if we want it...
I really hate forums. I don't think I'd keep up with forums if we had
them. It takes 10 times longer to read a forum than a newsgroup, and
since our mailing lists are gated to newsgroups on www.gmane.org, there
doesn't seem to be a need for forums too. You can even read & post
using a web browser (though it's a bit primitive, I grant you). Windows
users have no trouble with newsgroups, because you get a newsreader
installed by default with Windows XP (Outlook Express). We should
provide instructions for accessing the mailing lists using a newsreader
somewhere.
Cheers,
Simon
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