I looked at creating a CMS on AppEngine, and quickly discovered that the issue is that most users of a CMS want their plugins. The hill to get over in terms of install base is formidable when you consider that Java, and Python are not as commonly spoken languages as PHP, Ruby, and ASP. That's why www.LockerGnome.com moved to GAE via CDNinabox.com
Rather than porting code it was far cheaper and easier to use GAE as an Accelerator than it was to create a CMS from Scratch. If you are going to build a CMS, from what our clients have asked for the top things they want that most CMS attempts are lacking: Post Via XMLRPC RSS by Tags, Author, Category XML Sitemaps Easy Conversion of themes from other CMS's to the CMS As such you may want to look at other Django templates for CMS's and try and be compatible with those, or mostly compatible with those, to make it easier for users to switch. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Niklas Rosencrantz Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 3:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [google-appengine] CMS for GAE Hi One of the disadvantages with GAE is that there is no CMS like Drupal och Joomla to easily deploy new large projects. Is there a CMS for GAE in the making? I found myself creating the basic functions of a CMS from scratch ie adding, viewing, editing and deleting articles in a categorized system that I supposse Joomla could have done if it were PHP. Do you know of any projects for GAE that is like a CMS with the basic functions for instance that only the user who created an article can edit it? Thanks Niklas R -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
