Hi all.
Since I didn't get any reply to my last replies about this topic, I think I'll
go with MovableType because it what seems to be the best solution at the
moment. I'll probably install it under http://www.iglu.org.il/mt/ , etc.
If you think I'm wrong with this decision and should choose WordPress or
something else, please reply to my previous replies, and let me know why I am
wrong. If you agree with my points, also please reply to support me. But
silence is considered as equivalent to an acceptance.
So speak now, or forever hold your peace.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 24 Sep 2009 23:56:01 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi Lior!
>
> On Wednesday 23 Sep 2009 20:43:52 Lior Kesos wrote:
> > I think the main issue, which is even more important then security is
> > the size of the potential volunteering base.
> > This issue was demonstrated lately on the work on august penguins site
> > and the work on the hamakor site.
> > I (Drupal Geek and wearer of many drupal shirts) wanted to help build
> > the Hamakor site in Drupal, but eventually Gilad was fed up of me
> > being to busy to actually contribute and thus built it in wordpress.
> > They are WAY more people that can help out based on wordpress and I
> > believe that this should be done in the simplest CMS around with the
> > biggest user base(hence wordpress).
>
> If I understand you correctly, you say that we should pick up the dominant
> solution with the largest user base. However, I can say the same about
> dominant solutions in other fields such as PHP, MySQL, or Microsoft
> Windows. "Everyone knows Windows, so that's what we should use this
> because it's the dominant solution."
>
> Brain-share in the market is an important consideration, but not the only
> one. It's not hard to train people in adding new posts to a different CMS
> - it's usually very simple. But we should not give in to the prevalence of
> WordPress (or whatever) and not consider solutions that are better, just
> because they are less popular.
>
> Please let me know if I understood you.
>
> > There are many people that can subscribe to security rss for wordpress
> > or upgrade the plugin, I think that we are missing is people that will
> > create content and there are many people with that affiliation in the
> > wordpress community.
>
> From my experience, eventually it ends up with very few people actively
> maintaining the back-end. I've been trying to get people to clean up spam
> from some of the community's MediaWikis (wiki.python.org.il,
> wiki.osdc.org.il, wiki.perl.org.il ,etc.) and so far I've done the lion's
> share of the work.
>
> At once point on eskimo (the old host of iglu.org.il) someone installed a
> PHP- BB instance under spread.linux.org.il and he didn't have time to
> update it even after I asked him to. I ended up having to completely
> disable the domain there. As expected, there was little there, so not a
> lot of harm was done.
>
> Regards,
>
> Shlomi Fish
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