Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a suggestion to make things a little easier. I've come around > Zope content management and particularly I was attacted by Plone, a AJAX > (afaik) CMS.
> It seems promising and quite easy to use, with some add-ons that can > help in some tasks (users, svn access, mailing lists, search facilities, > wikis...). Okay, so, here's my personal feeling about a content-management system for something like this. This is just my personal take; others may have other opinions. I, and I think the rest of the Gatekeepers are in the same boat, don't have time to learn a CMS, deploy a CMS, or do the work required to get it running, nor do the people who have graciously been providing system administration support for the OpenAFS project. Setting one up usually also requires administrative access to the web server on which it would be running, which poses other challenges. If we have a dedicated volunteer who wants to do the work of maintaining the pages, *will stick around for the long haul* (this is very important), and thinks they can do this most effectively by using one of these systems, we can probably find a way to integrate that work. They will, however, have to find a way to bear nearly all of the implementation effort and will need to clearly document how everything works. My major concern for taking this approach is if we get our pages imported into some CMS, the person who was interested in it disappears, and none of the other people who volunteer to work on the web pages know anything about that CMS, we end up in a really bad place and essentially have to throw away a bunch of work and start over in a very time-consuming process. We really can't afford more time-consuming processes. We are heavily resource-constrained on a very few people right now. So... if you want to make a CMS work, I don't think we'd rule this out out of hand, but the bar is really high. The advantage of simple HTML is that anyone can jump in and help and if one volunteer runs out of time another can take over without a huge amount of difficulty. If any of us had time to do comprehensive web site development and design, well, we wouldn't be asking for volunteers to help. :) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
