Re: wordpress (was Re: FW: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?)
On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 17:37 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 07:15:25PM -0700, Andy Streich wrote: Opensource blog software is pretty good these days and simple to set up (at Argh wordpress 1) the WP release model is incompatible with debian's security release policy, in much the same way mozilla is: http://bugs.debian.org/275814 2) http://blog.php-security.org/archives/7-WordPress-update.html, specifically update 2. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 How about Drupal? It's available as a standard-issue deb though more recent versions are on the Drupal site. Drupal is a cms rather than pure blogging software but according to their write-ups plugins can be used to achieve this. I suspect an important reason for the popularity of web boards is that they provide a greater sense of community than a mailing list and become, for some, a place to hang out. At present, though, I don't think anyone's really cracked the problem with web boards, namely that mailing lists are fast, simple and don't require a gui to use even though they are less flexible than the boards in some respects. In addition, web boards require quite a lot of oversight and maintenance, in my experience, not to mention server resources. So someone would have to do a lot of work. :) Fish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wordpress (was Re: FW: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?)
On Sunday 28 August 2005 04:18 pm, Mark Crean wrote: I suspect an important reason for the popularity of web boards is that they provide a greater sense of community than a mailing list and become, for some, a place to hang out. At present, though, I don't think anyone's really cracked the problem with web boards, namely that mailing lists are fast, simple and don't require a gui to use even though they are less flexible than the boards in some respects. Agree. Hence the suggestion entailed a blog and the existing email list as two views on exactly the same data. In addition, web boards require quite a lot of oversight and maintenance, in my experience, not to mention server resources. So someone would have to do a lot of work. To me that's the real problem. Frankly I have no hope for anything like this being implemented in the near future, but still want to advocate for it. The mailing list is a tremendous resource. For people in remote locations (like me) it's a necessary lifeline for using the Debain distro. And if it is necessary to say, I'm not disparraging the mailing list. Instead I have these dreams sometimes, probably inspired by the thought that the 100 or so emails I get on this list each day that contain lots of really useful information, and every single user of the list is likely working on a computer that individually has more power than all the computers I touched as an undergrad combined. GNU/Linux is a wonderful collection of complex software and the Debian distro is magical. Yet the one thing hasn't changed much in 30 years and that's the production of documentation and support information. That sort of work rarely if ever gets the cudos that writting a few dozen lines of clever system code does even though it is just as (arguably more) critical -- especially at this stage in the GNU/Linux life cycle. We all dream. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
