There's a thread starting on [email protected] about the
requirements for a CMS for the ASF.  Here's a snippet from Paul:


On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Paul Querna <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Yeah, so, here is the kicker.  We run *.apache.org on a single
> t2000.  Granted, it is a beefy machine, 32 cpu/32gigs of RAM etc.
> However, it by itself could not cope with us switching to *any* CMS
> right now.
>
> I talked to the mozilla.org guys -- they run 10 machines behind a
> caching load balancer for drupal -- we have nothing like that (nor the
> budget, heh, heh).  Performance is all relative.
>
> I think the hardest semi-requirement for any CMS we could use, is the
> ability to generate static file exports.
>
> We either need something that does cross-datacenter replication (eu &
> us), or something that generates static files that we can rsync to eu
> & us.  If it does replication and not static exports -- whatever is
> running on the edge servers needs to be doing _really_ good caching.
>
> I believe for the foundation and service to projects, we do need some
> kind of WYSIWYG type CMS -- I'm just not sure what we want exists :)
>
> It tends to get bike-shedy pretty quickly talking about
> wordpress/drupal/typo/other-FOTM-CMS, but we do need something sooner
> or later.

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