HI Ted,
2012/11/14 Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Sébastien Brisard < > sebastien.bris...@m4x.org> wrote: > > > > There is no problem with the current setup of our website (at least, > the > >> website generated locally has no problem). > > > > > > For the new system, I would like to step up, but I really (really) have > > no clue what you are talking about... I don't know what svnpubsub or CMS > > are. > > > >> There is a pointer in Ted's answer to your other message. I'll read > > through > > the doc, and if I feel not too incompetent, I will try it on CM if you > > want. > > > I remember exactly that feeling! > It must have been a long, long time ago ;-) In fact I just don't believe you ;-) > > svnpubsub[1] is a mechanism that svn supports which allows listeners to > subscribe to changes in an svn repository. It stands for > svn-publish-subscribe. CMS[2][3] stands for content management system and > Apache has built their own on top of svnpubsub. One rationale for > reinventing this was the need for the site to be completely static. > > The way that Apache CMS works is that you write documents in mark-down[4] > format which is basically just text with a few wiki-like conventions for > common textual effects such as headers and links. These documents are > converted to HTML and embedded in page boilerplate using a templating > system similar to that used by Django's[5]. > > A nice starting point for a totally simple site might be the Drill web site > [6][7]. I say this because it is the only thing that Drill has put into > SVN and is also new and thus relatively simpler than a fully fleshed out > site. > > [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html#svnpubsub > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system > [3] http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html > [4] http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ > [5] https://www.djangoproject.com/ > [6] http://incubator.apache.org/drill/ > [7] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/drill/ > Thanks for all the pointers and explanations. I'll try to have a look this weekend, but reading the other thread, I think it's beyond my means for the time being... I will read through those docs, though, it's good for my culture ! But I doubt I'll be ready before the dead line which seems to be very close. Best regards, Sébastien
