----- Original Message -----
> From: Joe Schaefer <[email protected]>
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Cc:
> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 2:28 PM
> Subject: Re: Feedback on the CMS
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>> From: Dave Fisher <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 2:20 PM
>> Subject: Re: Feedback on the CMS
>>
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> An enhancement idea:
>>
>> On May 11, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote:
>>
>>> With 1100 builds so far the ooo-site CMS instance
>>> is only 350 builds behind www.apache.org as the
>>> most-used CMS tree so far. I monitor the CMS logs
>>> daily to evaluate usage and this project publishes
>>> about as often as all our other projects combined,
>>> which really makes me wonder where we'd be here if
>>> the org had never created the CMS in the first place.
>>>
>>>
>>> The ooo-site is far and away the largest instance at
>>> over 9GB total. The reason I'm writing here is to
>>> ask general questions about user satisfaction with
>>> the CMS:
>>>
>>> 1) Is there any aspect of the CMS that needs immediate
>>> improvement?
>>>
>>> 2) Are you satisfied with the workflow, or are there areas
>>> that could stand improvement?
>>
>> In discussing improvements to the site we are planning to move the
> ssi.mdtext
>> from the templates tree to the content tree.
>>
>> It would be really handy if we could trigger rebuilds within a subtree of
>> content when a special file like ssi.mdtext is modified.
>>
>> Perhaps there is a way by using path.pm to grab the ssi.mdtext (which we
>> don't want to make into an html) and call a routine in view.pm that
> will
>> rebuild a subtree? Any tricks? Callbacks into the CMS?
>
> Doesn't sound all that smart to me tbh, but you could setup
> %path::dependencies
> with something along these lines in path.pm:
>
> my @html_files_in_foo_dir = glob "content/foo/**/*.html";
> for (@html_files_in_foo_dir) {
> s/content//;
> $dependencies{$_} = "/foo/ssi.mdtext";
Bug: that should read
$dependencies{$_} = [ "/foo/ssi.mdtext" ];
> }
>
> Just don't try this outside the foo dir or that glob call will take forever
> and be totally pointless: just leave the file in templates.
>
