Re: [OpenAFS] Re: OpenAFS web site design help?

[Mike Bydalek]

Russ Allbery wrote: 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. [snip] Russ, I have to say I agree with you here.  Setting up a CMS can be a pain and it is really difficult to recover when the maintainer leaves.  I'm actually going through that right now since one of my employees left and I'm now stuck learning his custom Drupal install! This seems like a good time to offer a suggestion, and one that I thought I would toss out there would be something that I find to be a little easier to maintain than a CMS, but also doesn't deal with the problems with various people producing pure HTML. I would suggest having a look at Guide XML, which is what the Gentoo project uses to do everything on their site.  You can find more information about the project here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/site.xml  Also, there are some examples of what the Gentoo project uses here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xml-guide.xml For our documentation site, we use this internally as it allows anyone to really contribute without knowing proper HTML - they just have to look at the XML tags we use. Just my $0.02. Regards, Mike