Re: GNOME-UK Website ideas

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Rob Bradford wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 14:32 +0000, Glenn J. Mason wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Now that gnome.org revamp is getting some steam I've been playing with
>> ideas for the GNOME-UK site i.e. www.uk.gnome.org.  It's in drupal
>> (despite it's unsuitability for gnome.org proper) because 
>>
>> a) it's relatively lightweight (esp. with PHPTemplate engine)
>> b) requires only PHP and mysql
>> c) can be made to do what (I think) we want with little effort.
>>
> 
> (Drupal is a nightmare. I've run a very busy site that's been using it
> from somewhere around the 3.xx release.)
> 
> One again i'd like to suggest we wait and bide our time to see how the
> w.g.o design turns out. Also as far as I understand they are
> implementing it using Plone on Zope. We should ultimately aim to adopt
> the same technologies so that we can reuse work and potentially the same
> hosting platform (Zope makes it very easy to create virtual hosting
> environments for users with ACLs.)

Let's not get into arguments about technology. Anything is going to be
better than what we have now, plus remember this is only a test site for
the moment. If your fears are realised, we can always change it.

-Thomas