Re: Drupal as candidate to be challenged

[Claus Schwarm <c schwarm gmx net>]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:36:50 +0100
Quim Gil <qgil desdeamericaconamor org> wrote:

> Localisation was my last concern about using Drupal for the wgo
> management. After seeing how the i18n module works, I have no more
> concerns. In my opinion Drupal has proved to be the best candidate we
> have so far.
> 
> I suggest from now on we consider it our platform for the wgo revamp.
> The debate is still open and if there are unsolved concerns they need to
> be discussed. But at least it would be good to have a default candidate
> to be challenged by better proposals.
> 

I do have a few concerns! Maybe I just miss a few things. However:

 * Why do the links look so strange? For instance, 
   
      /index.php?q=en/214-releasenotes

   I believe this should be 

     /en/214-releasenotes 
 
   in the final version, right?

 * What about all the existing links, then? Will they break?

 * Where's the functionality to make donations? See
   http://www.gnome.org/friends/

 * Where's the functionality to make a bounty list? See
   http://www.gnome.org/bounties/

 * Where's the functionality to show votes? See
   http://foundation.gnome.org/vote/votes.php?election_id=1

 * Where's the event table which was one of the rationales for the
   change to dynamic pages? Or do I mix something here?

 * Is there a way to make page feedback? 

 * Why is the language navigation so prominent (on top)? As a users,
   I'm not interested in how many langugages the page is translated in.
   See the bottom of http://news.google.de/news?ned=us for a good list,
   IMHO.

 * Is there no way to get rid of the expendable trees?

 * Why are there news on the front page -- or why is it looking like
   news? Who's going to write them?

 * Do we really want comments on our front page?

 * Does a potential visitor really care about who's online and who's
   new?

 * Why's there a 'log-in' and a 'create content' link, that is shown to
   visitors?

 * What about all the wgo/project/* sites? Are they going to be
   integrated and if so, how?

I admit the language functionality you describe sounds really nice!

However, the list is long enought to be careful about declaring Drupal
to be "the platform for the wgo revamp!"

Remember that you asked to me to summerize my concerns. ;-)

Cheers,
Claus