Looking at all new http://www.apache.org/, I am compelled to +1 CMS.
Samisa... On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[email protected]>wrote: > Now that we're soooo late in having any Website at all how about moving to > the new CMS instead of Confluence and various other weird contortions? > > Sanjiva. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Nick Burch <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:55 AM > Subject: Moving to website to the new CMS? > To: [email protected] > > > Hi All > > At the moment our main website is edited through confluence, auto-exported > (when the plugin isn't broken...) before going onto the website. However, we > don't have an easy way to know when changes happen, edits can only occur via > confluence, and whenever the auto-export plugin sulks we can't edit for a > bit... > > I'd like to suggest that we instead move to the new Apache CMS: > > http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2010/10/22/evolution-of-apaches-websites/ > > This would give us a number of things, including: > * Instant publish (no more waiting 2 hours) > * Email notifications of changes > * Website can be edited both via a friendly CMS, as well as in a text > editor > * More options for site layout and formatting for the future > > I've asked a few people here at ApacheCon and got a generally positive > response to the idea of the change. So, assuming no objections are raised, > I'll go ahead and do the work to switch us over (getting things setup with > infra, switching the conflence markup to markdown etc). Please shout if you > don't want this to go ahead by lazy consensus! > > Thanks > Nick > > > > -- > Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. > Founder, Director & Chief Scientist; Lanka Software Foundation; > http://www.opensource.lk/ > Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2; http://wso2.com/ > Founder & Director; Thinkcube Systems; http://www.thinkcube.com/ > Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ > Member; Sahana Software Foundation; http://www.sahanafoundation.org/ > Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/ > > Blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/ > > Samisa ... http://samisa-abeysinghe.blogspot.com/
