On Aug 30, 2006, at 08:43pm, Russ Allbery wrote:
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...).
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 [...]
We really can't afford more time-consuming processes. We are heavily
resource-constrained on a very few people right now.
In first place I don't want to spend too much time on such things,
that's why the search for a nice looking and easy to use interface is
important, focusing more on /what/ and not spending hours on how.
Plone seems to me a easy way to cfm instead of using plain zope.
Rigth now we have the site running on a linux distro (which one I
don't know) with apache 1.3, quite old. Bringing up plone on apache 2
with a debian is quite easy.
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. :)
Well, I will see that :)
Personally, I think OpenAFS needs more than a plain-html site ---
without frames! --- since we lack of some nice features like an AFS
user database. Maintaining the cell server database is a good thing:
who uses openafs, who's the person reposible for the cell, type of
servers, services based on the cell, any informations about it... And
of course, the ability of keeping it up-to-date. This is just the
``advertisement'' point of view :)
My $0.02, I'll give it a try and tell you how painful it would be.
Anyway I see the CVS->SVN worse than this even though there are
scripts around, and of course, a good occasion of renewing the site
with some useful services.
--
Franco Milicchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Research (n.): a discovery already published by a chinese guy one month
before you, copying a russian who did it in the 60s.
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