I'd also be really happy to work on something in this space. It's been banging around in my head for a while(amongst all the other crap in there). I think starting with something small with a good plugin architecture is paramount. I'd even consider not using Rails, but other Ruby frameworks if they suited those needs better(thoughts?).
Cam On 22/01/2010, at 12:37 PM, Daryl Manning wrote: > Well, I know everyon once in a while I get a hankering to work on a blogging > project to replace wordpress. Same sort of goals: dead easy install, good > theming, plugin architecture, fast, efficient, troublefree (in fact, one > thing that's quite started to annoy me lately is the number of times I've had > to upgrade wordpress of late even with cap deploy and git). Opinionated, but > practical (all respect to other blog developers like Xavier and folks too who > have done some great work). I know xml-rpc posting is one of my big needs > since I rarely log into the things myself. > > anyhow, if anyone was cool with that, I'd be happy to work on it - just seems > like a lot ot take on on my own. > > ciao ! > Daryl. > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Nicholas Faiz <[email protected]> > wrote: > I recently tried to work on a project which really required wordpress > or drupal - it needed decent CMSing *and* blogging - and I don't touch > PHP (not out of disdain or anything, I've just never really used it, > and don't want to support it commercially). I ended up moving toward > enki, which handles blogging well and page management simply. > > Mephisto used to be quite good, but the Liquid templating layer was > irksome. > > I've tried to sit through one of those Refinery CMS videos but they > aren't very useful for questioning how the app can be extended and > seem to contain predictable ideas. I'm dubious about CMS' created by > design houses, as they often only cater to 'brochure sites' which are > good with theming but don't create content platforms/services which > are easy to extend using the framework. > > BCMS gets the brochure site approach right, and the UI is versatile, > except its extensibility is an issue, I think (one of my current > projects has extended it). They have a focussed team and it might well > overcome these issues with time. > > The entire CMS gap is a bit annoying. I've been involved in a lot of > CMS work over the last two years, and would be happy to have a hack > session in a Melbourne pub one weekend afternoon if anyone wanted to > have a go at doing something better, if only to share some ideas about > what a good CMS would do on the Rails platform. > > adva_cms - http://github.com/svenfuchs/adva_cms/ - coming out of > Germany was looking excellent for a little while, but I think the code > may be overly complex. > > Cheers, > Nicholas > > On Jan 22, 11:35 am, Daryl Manning <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd also say the same is true of a wordpress competitor though. I know it > > irks me sometimes I still use wordpress even though I truly prefer running > > an extending Rails app (let's face it, the wordpress eco system of plugins > > is freaking amazing - much liek Drupal actually). > > > > ciao ! > > Daryl > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:40 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > I tried Radiant CMS a while ago. I actually found it pretty buggy and > > > slow. After looking at the code base, it was pretty clunky. Some of > > > the administration sections were pretty badly designed as well. I > > > tried explaining the Admin to some non techies, but they struggled. I > > > didn't mean for that to turn into a Radiant bash, but thats just my > > > experience. It may have changed since then (I played with it about 6 > > > months ago). It almost made me write my own. I havent seen BrowserCMS > > > before, I'm guessing it doesn't rank very high when you google "rails > > > cms" > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<rails-oceania%2bunsubscr...@goog > > > legroups.com> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
