Re: Why I am a grumpy killjoy

["David Grega" <webmaster overtech zzn com>]

My own suggestion would be to switch to PHP now while it's not really a big
deal.  Many people already know PHP and if we ever need to totally re-do the
site in the future, it would be much easier if we used a language most people
already knew.

That's just my two cents,
- Dave Grega

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller" <Uraeus linuxrising org>
To: <gnome-web-list gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:53 AM
Subject: Why I am a grumpy killjoy


> Hi,
>
> To start at the start. In the debate on the topic of a Zope or a PHP
> based news system, my basic feelings are: I couldn't care less.
>
> The reason I am sceptical about ditching Zope in the near future is that
> our current setup works and Michael Bernstein have offered to help us
> make the needed tweaks to make it work better.
>
> While a new grand news system that merges news from 10 smaller GNOME
> news sites seems grand it isn't really something we short term need.
> Today we have approx. 2 stories a day average and that number has been
> stable for some time. So my feeling is that we just get 10 low traffic,
> low activtity newsfeeds in addition to our working main newsfeed.
>
> So does that mean I will work hard to stop anyone who wants to make such
> a system, no I will not. This is a volunteer project and if jdub wants
> to spend his evenings implementing such a system then that is ok.
>
> I do however think that getting the new website up, and all our current
> content moved into it, without any fancy additions like newsfeed,
> themeing etc. will be a very big task anyway.
> So given a choice I would prefer if we focused on that for the next 3-6
> months instead of making grand plans that only delay us even more.
>
> As for the question raised here about how to do these new pages (server
> side detection, javascript etc.). Well once again I would vote for the
> choice of technology that would let us get our new look online as soon
> as possible. If we then get a solution that looks less good on Netscape
> Classic than on newer browsers, then so be it.
>
> After we have the new site up and running and all content moved to it,
> then I think it is time to do stuff like themeing and visonary newsfeed
> systems.
>
> But all of this is just my opinion and I am probably just a old grumpy
> dude. :)
>
> Christian
>
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