Re: [E-devel] [e-users] [website] cms?

2008-08-04 Thread thomasg
Having it handled by CVS instead of a webgui-CMS doesn't mean to have no CMS at all. There are some CM-systems out there that can create the content out of simple text files with a simple markup language. This would allow to keep the CVS structure and have people to write articles without having

Re: [E-devel] [e-users] [website] cms?

2008-08-02 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 00:18:23 -0500 Nathan Ingersoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: i agree here. i like our fairly flat (and lax) access structure. if we trust you to go writing bits of e.org's website - we trust you to write code - if that is your skill, or to just know to keep your hands off what

Re: [E-devel] [e-users] [website] cms?

2008-08-02 Thread dan sinclair
We've tried this about 3 times. Someone comes along and says if we have a CMS non-technical people will write articles. We implement a CMS. No-one writes articles. We drop the CMS. If you want to write news releases put them on blogs. Or write a news blurb for the front page. If longer

Re: [E-devel] [e-users] [website] cms?

2008-08-02 Thread Luchezar Petkov
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 8:58 PM, dan sinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've tried this about 3 times. Someone comes along and says if we have a CMS non-technical people will write articles. We implement a CMS. No-one writes articles. We drop the CMS. If you want to write news releases put

Re: [E-devel] [e-users] [website] cms?

2008-08-02 Thread Toma
While drunk at the moment (yet again) i think i would contribute to any user controlled content as would a lot of people. (while not drunk of course.) People semi-excited about the project would like to show their support too. And thats the great thing about OSS I believe that the community gets a

Re: [E-devel] [e-users] [website] cms?

2008-08-02 Thread Sthithaprajna Garapaty
I'm not saying having a CMS will suddenly bring people to write. That's a separate problem. I think it will not BLOCK people from writing. There's a difference. There are various avenues we can pursue to attract writers. Bounties, request for articles on the front page, etc can easily attract

Re: [E-devel] [e-users] [website] cms?

2008-08-02 Thread The Rasterman
On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 02:26:57 +0800 Toma [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: While drunk at the moment (yet again) i think i would contribute to any user controlled content as would a lot of people. (while not drunk of course.) People semi-excited about the project would like to show their support too.

Re: [E-devel] [e-users] [website] cms?

2008-08-02 Thread dan sinclair
On 2-Aug-08, at 2:55 PM, Sthithaprajna Garapaty wrote: I'm not saying having a CMS will suddenly bring people to write. That's a separate problem. I think it will not BLOCK people from writing. There's a difference. There are various avenues we can pursue to attract writers. Bounties,

Re: [E-devel] [e-users] [website] cms?

2008-08-01 Thread The Rasterman
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 10:46:01 -0700 Ian Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: So now it is your chance to tell us why we should be using a specific cms verses the alternative of just making our own specific to our needs and keeping it minimalistic. Please give the pros and the cons and explorer

Re: [E-devel] [e-users] [website] cms?

2008-08-01 Thread Nathan Ingersoll
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:27 PM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so eventually went back to an old original method. www lives in cvs - u want to work on it, u get cvs access. committing means it auto-updates. if u need to test the php locally setting up a local apache