Re: www.gnome.org redesign status

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 10:56 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Paul Cutler
> <pcutler foresightlinux org> wrote:
> > I'd like to propose that we follow up on Vincent's comments and form a
> > small team to investigate if any other solutions might be a better
> > fit.  It's possible in the last 2 1/2 years the technology and the
> > members in the community might have changed enough that we might want
> > to think about choosing a new CMS, based on the original requirements
> > at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/CmsRequirements.  My first instinct
> > would be to evaluate Plone, Midgard (as it came in #2 last time ) and
> > Drupal (as it seems to have grown greatly in its use over the last
> > couple of years, and the major reason it wasn't chosen was i18n which
> > may have changed in this time).
> 
> This may qualify as bikeshedding but I'd also suggest looking at
> elgg.org (a GPL-licensed social networking platform). It isn't a
> traditional CMS by any stretch, so might be quickly dismissable as not
> meeting most of the requirements, but it might be worth rethinking
> what gnome.org would look like if it were primarily a tool for a gnome
> *community*.

I think it's clear that feature creep won't help get this (should be)
simple job done.

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