> On Jun 12, 2025, at 08:43, Ken Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 01:22:32PM +0200, Geert Janssens wrote: >> Hi Timo, >> >> Thank you for your offer. >> >> I agree with you the project's website is showing its age and can use some >> love. >> >> I'm maintaining a wordpress site in another context myself. From that >> experience, I don't >> lean towards wordpress any more though. >> For our needs I'd rather have a revamped site implemented using a static >> website >> generator. So far I only have experimented with Hugo as example, but I know >> there are >> more. >> >> In my experience a CMS like wordpress brings quite a bit of additional >> maintenance. It's a >> huge code base of which we'd only use a small part, but which leave much >> room for >> uncaught bugs. >> >> That is however just my 2 cents as a currently inactive gnucash dev. I'd be >> interested to >> hear what the others think of this. >> >> Regards, >> >> Geert > > Hi, > > I have to agree with Geert. Wordpress and other heavy-weight CMS carry > both an additional maintenance burden as well as an additional resource > toll and site performance impact. Managing the bugs/patching requires a > lot of trained resources that are typically not availabe to an open > source product. >
I manage a WordPress instance too, https://www.californiaancestors.org <https://www.californiaancestors.org/>. We (the California Genealogical Society) chose WordPress specifically because maintaining the content is *less* technical than other CMSes. We’ve found that mostly to be true. But we also pay a hosting service to provide the infrastructure. GnuCash doesn’t pay a hosting service. www.gnucash.org <http://www.gnucash.org/> is hosted at Linas Vepstas’s house. I’m pretty sure that it would be way too much to ask Linas to provide and maintain a CMS instance, no matter what CMS that might be. So Timo, thanks for the offer, but no thanks. One more thing: Please don’t cross-post across the mailing lists. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
