On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Hamish wrote: > > Martin Landa wrote: > > > BTW it would be great to start migration webpages to Drupal. AFAIU > > > we are waiting for LDAP-Drupal synchronization(?). > > Paul: > > Would that mean updates to the website would have to be done through > > a web-based interface? I'm not sure I'm keen on that. When making a > > change to the website it's good to be able to grep to see where the > > thing you are changing is mentioned, and change all occurences.
This is an important downside to using a CMS like Drupal. A global find / replace is not easily implemented by default. It may be possible to add this functionality through a 3rd party module. > Before supporting a move to Drupal I would still like to see prototypes > of the GRASS frontpage, download page, and since it's already begun the > screenshots page implemented. How will the final product look? > > Markus: > > http://grass-dev.osgeo.net > > One thing I think is critical is that the changes are monitored in some > sort of SCM with change history including author, date, and commit log > message. Does drupal give access to change history? I think that it is possible to have revisioned edits with Drupal, possibly after enabling some module. > > > Personally I prefer the exactitude of the 'vim' + raw html approach, > and don't like presenting a blog-like page style for a project > homepage. But I look forward to seeing what the Drupal prototype will > look like, or 3rd party examples, and hope my worries can be relieved. Here is an example of a user-powered Drupal site. There are a couple of add-ons present for pretty-printing code snippets, etc. I would be happy to comment on any other Drupal related questions. > > Having said that I am all for lowering barriers to entry to allow more > helpers to contribute. But raw HTML is not very hard, and Markus's nice > CSS setup ensures a consistent and pretty look. > I felt this way too. Although, now I am starting to like the ability to easily define a pile of terms which can be used to index / cross-reference / sort pages on a Drupal site. This allow rapid navigation by concept rather than static navigation approaches commonly used on web pages. It would be good to experiment a bit with the new Drupal site, and if it is not suitable we can always switch to something else. Cheers, Dylan > > Hamish > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ >_________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
