Re: www.gnome.org redesign status

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 04/21/2009 03:18 PM, Frederic Peters wrote:
> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>
> > > I found that to be a strange response to me saying (in that same email)
> > > that we should not block on choosing _any_ CMS. We don't need a CMS to
> > > get the new structure and content online. A suitable CMS would be
> > > _nice_, but it's not a blocker. Lack of committed web people is the
> > > blocker.
> > Any reason not simply go with MediaWiki?  We already know that the wiki
> > is where everything happens.  Why not use it for everything?
>
> > From my point of view I18n was deemed important (and a big gain
> over the current scheme, and I agree wholeheartedly with that)
> and the i18n story of wiki sites is usually quite poor.

I don't think we'll ever get fully translated pages other than maybe the front 
page.  And only if the front page is static.  See GNU's...

What's the point, really?  Let each language team have their own subspace 
under gnome.org and welcome their own users and have their own content.  Like 
how wikipedia works.

> But then I don't care much about chosen technology, and I agree with
> Murray, the problem is lack of web people (or lack of familiarity with
> web technologies by current GNOME hackers[1]). Whatever the technology
> is, we first need people commited to achieve something.

We don't have web people, and we won't get any by waiting another ten years. 
Lets just use our hackers to populate the site.  Or at least make it easier 
for our ED to edit the site.  Wikis solve both.

Cheers,
behdad

> Cheers,
>          Frederic
>
> [1] but this is, slowly, changing.