2010/11/25 Derrick Brashear <sha...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Jakub Witkowski <j...@jabster.pl> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Back during European OpenAFS meeting, there was some discussion about >> replacing current OpenAFS website with a new, better and shinier one. >> The task seemed not to have any takers, though, because I have not >> seen any discussion about it on neither this nor developer discussion >> lists. >> >> Recently, I found myself having plenty of free time and decided that I >> could tackle this problem. I have built what could be considered a >> functional demo, available at http://afs.rikanise.net/ While the it is >> functional, it should not be considered finished - there are some >> small niggles here and there (like the fact that "software" section >> thinks it contains add-ons for Plone) that should be ironed out before >> it is used as the main site. >> >> I would like to solicit comments about site's functionality and >> behaviour - I tried to build something that could be useful for the >> community but my choices might not be the best ones. Feel free to grab >> an account and play around! If you want to play with some particular >> aspect of the site (for example add a new document to documentation >> tab), register and then drop me an email, I'll set required privileges >> for you. > > Certainly it seems functional; What's the backend? The current web > site, being emitted, > has the advantage that we could clone it around the world simply by > pointing numerous web servers > at the content in AFS. > The site is based on Plone ( http://plone.org/ ), which is a Python powered content management system. The downside to this solution is that it requires a long-running process and a bit more resources than classic "bunch of php" would use and needs a slightly more exotic configuration in the frontend web server. On the upside, it is self-contained and requires little more than modern gcc and svn to clone the whole site.
>> One final note: since this is a test portal only, I did not bother >> with caching. Additionally, the host that this site is on is rather >> underpowered, so you should treat site's performance as "worst case". > > Sure. And thank you for your effort thus far! > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
