Hi David, *, On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:01 AM, David Nelson <comme...@traduction.biz> wrote: > > There is also the question of who would administer a Drupal site. I'm > not currently aware of any candidates with the right profile, unless > Christian was willing to do it.
I don't think the administration part would cause problems here, it's true that drupal so far isn't my favourite, since I failed to see a convincing UI back then when I evaluated different CMS, but this might of course change, and when switching to drupal, I won't block the efforts but try to assist the other admins during the move. > [...] > The code base behind the website is managed via a TDF-managed git > repository. You can't just tweak and edit files on the server. This is true, although the git repo was setup to allow contributions to the "not-managed in the user visible part of the CMS" by other volunteers as well. on pumbaa, the playground area, I do modify files on the installation directly, but there I don't risk breaking the site for the end-users, but just for myself :-) When the changes are good (good enough :-), I'll push them to the corresponding git repo and pull the changes to the live site. > The admin has to be someone known and trusted by TDF and Ooodevs De, > because he/she will have access to important project resources. This is true - since administration requires shell access to the production servers, and that is restricted of course. But again I don't see this as a problem, the admin-team will help out no matter what. Last but not least the switch will not be made over night anyway :-) (and the good thing is we have pumbaa, a dedicated "for testing/evaluation" server, where one can setup a VM and provide access with less strict requirments (silverstripe on pumbaa also runs in a VM) > [...] > In addition, before being adopted as LibO's new CMS, a > fully-operational, full-featured demo has to be offered for *thorough > prior evaluation*. Yes, definitely. > It's not enough to be evangelizing Drupal and > saying it *can* do this and it *can* do that. It has to be proven and > concretely demonstrated that it's a superior choice and that TDF/LibO > really *needs* it. True meritocracy is supposed to be the driving > force behind this project. Yes, exactly my POV as well :-) > [...] ciao Christian -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
