I followed the discussion that gave birth to that CMS. I think it represents a progress for non-project sites (such as www and community, but I'm not convinced that it is a good solution for project sites. The main points are:
* It's SVN based. In contrast to Confluence, this means that non-committers can't contribute directly. * It uses an obscure markup called markdown. That means yet another markup to learn, while most developers are familiar with XDoc and/or APT, and Confluence has the necessary features (help and preview) that makes it easy to learn its markup. * Its GUI is... minimalist to say the least. To summarize, switching to that solution would further reduce the number of people able to contribute to the site, namely to committers who are willing to familiarize themselves with a CMS specific to the ASF. Andreas On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 03:20, 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/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
