On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I don't know a better place to discuss this, please tell me if you know
> (mailing lists preferred).
>
> Here at ETH Zurich (swiss federal institute of technology) we want to build
> a daily online journal. One of the suggestions (mine) is to build it with
> perl. It should be based on XML, and the idea is to make also the authoring
> / workflow / content management / user management parts of the system web
> based. The content should be modular: pictures, text, audio etc. should all
> be independant content elements with their own history, preferably with
> possibility to spawn children from parent elements (i.e. original picture
> and derived lower resolution pictures). For publishing, several elements
> should be composed together. Another non-trivial part is a good user- and
> group or role based user management. Suggestion for Text markup is a (pod
> like) plain text markup which is converted to XML for storage, with the
> possible option to fully go with XML when editors are really ready. For
> publishing of the articles I'm planning to use in some way AxKit (source
> should be taken from database), and Mason for the administration parts.
>
> Now maybe that's a bit a big project - I don't even really know yet. (My
> estimation for the whole project is 280 days of work - I'm hoping to solve
> this with 5 programmers until the end of november.. never done something
> that big :-(). Now what I would like to know:
>
> - is anything like the mentioned things already existent? (mainly: database
> based content management system, and something of a sophisticated user
> management) (We would probably even pay for it if that matters)
>
> - are things like these in the interest of other people, too? (Some weeks
> ago, in the discussion about templating, someone mentioned Zope and that
> perl should have something like that...) Would it be possible to get
> together and build such parts as open source? Preferably in a good modular
> fashion so more people can profit from it..
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/27/2137208&mode=thread
ActiveState are going to put Perl support into Zope.
http://www.zope.org/Wikis/zope-perl/FrontPage
> Maybe someone of you knows Vignette Storyserver? We have the option to get
> the source code of a Storyserver based online journal - although it
> requires modifications, and it's not XML based yet. So an idea is also to
> port this (TCL code) to perl, and reimplement required Storyserver
> functionality in perl. Any comments on that? (I don't know Storyserver yet)
>
> The reason for not using Zope, OpenCMS or Enhydra, is a) I don't know them
> really :-(, b) some downsides are visible when looking at these solutions
> (i.e. Zope's user interface seems rather sub-optimal for use by
> journalists, especially as long as it's html based). (And we haven't
> succeeded to get OpenCMS to run until now)
>
> Thanks for any comments!
> Christian Jaeger
>
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