On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Hamish wrote: > > > > Martin Landa wrote: > > > > > BTW it would be great to start migration webpages to Drupal. > > Hamish: > > > 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? > > (Accountability and peer review is needed as the webpage is the > "official voice" of the GRASS project)
This is an important point. I am not necessarily advocating the use of Drupal or any other CMS- rather pointing out that it can provide considerable administrative convenience. > Dylan: > > I think that it is possible to have revisioned edits with Drupal, > > possibly after enabling some module. > > ... maybe this a module based on: http://groups.drupal.org/taxonomy/term/2408 ??? > > 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. > > link? ( http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu ) ? > Damn. I really shouldn't be posting on an empty stomach. > > > 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. > > I guess the ideal is a good intuitive hierarchical structure with good > index/search/sort tools too- they aren't mutually exclusive. The > ability to limit the search to just the website or just a particular > mailing list would be nice (htDig?) This is also true. I was thinking about the annoyance of maintaining a hierarchy manually: especially if categories and such are modified over time. I had this page in mind (again from my own experiences with Drupal): http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/taxonomy_dhtml Dylan > > 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. > > agreed. > > > > Hamish -- 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
