Re: Replacing Squishdot

[Christian Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>]

Great Tomas,
First of all, do you have all the accesses you need on the servers to
get this done? 

Secondly, we need either to be able to migrate the old items or at least
make it available in some way. (I would think that exporting every story
in Squishdot into a static html page might be possible, I'll contact the
Squishdot people for some info on that.)

Last of all we need to agree upon a set of functionality for the new
setup (not losing anything(much) is a prereq. 

The needs I see is:
a) An account setup which preferably intergrates with the account setup
for the software map. This is both to disencourage trolls, but mostly to
make sure we don't have fake posts from well known people. (like the
Miguel post the other day under the summary story.)

b) A moderation system for pre-approving posts. (Could be we don't need
it if trolls get discouraged by the account system.)

c) Time controlled posting. We need to be able to approve a story and
set it to be published at a later time. (Important in order to time
press releases etc.)

d)  Working sidebars. The current setup of sidebars is nice but having a
working integrated events calendar would be nice. Also moving birthdays
out of the main story page and onto a sidebar would probably be a good
idea.

e) Other things?

Tomas how those these items fit with your system? Also if implementing
some of these things takes a long time then maybe implementing the rest
first is a good idea and then adding the other stuff over time.

Also jdub offered to help on IRC today.

Christian

On 25 Aug 2001 16:02:19 +0200, Tomas V.V.Cox wrote:
> On Saturday 25 August 2001 13:11, Christian Schaller wrote:
> 
> >
> > I think if someone with the rights skills volunteered to create a new
> > and better solution there would be no objections. Wether this
> > solution means fixing Squishdot and getting things like moderation,
> > accounts and some new sidebars working or replacing it with something
> > else (PHP3 or..) is not that important I think.
> 
> I can take this task if you want. I have yet such a system written in 
> PHP4 (working yet in production envs) and adapting it to Gnotices 
> requirements, doesn't seem to be a very difficult task.
> 
> > The origianl resistance from gnome-hackers against removing Squishdot
> > was more due to fear of another solution needing many months to get
> > in place than a statement of support for Squishdot and Zope.
> 
> I could have it working in one month without any help. In less time 
> with help, of course.
> 
> 
> Tomas V.V.Cox
> 
> PS.- Don't hesitate to ask me about my backgroud when needed.
> 
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