Chris Lyttle wrote:
too many people having access and no control.
That's part of the point of a CMS like Drupal. You still only need one person to
install and maintain the actual CMS, but you can set up members of the site with
varying levels of access. Admin, Senior editor, content editor etc, limit people
to editing things they've written or allow them access to certain types of
content, it gets quite granular.
the problem comes in trying to
graft a consistent theme to a site. I was never able to easily develop a
theme without some hacking that was beyond my basic html abilities.
How long ago was this? The phptemplate theme system was added to Drupal core for
the current version (4.6), it got a lot easier with that.
I have 3 customer sites on Drupal (all with different themes), plus a theme
(with one included theme variant) and a module on Drupal.org. So no worries there :)
I'd want to see
that whoever is doing that work is committed enough to see it to
completion
Well, I'd suggest that one way forward would be to leave the current site well
alone and just build a new one for G2. Incorporate and update old content etc.
With Drupal it's perfectly possible to make the site members only, and restrict
membership until the site is ready to launch. Then switch at a later point.
Looking a little deeper at gnucash.org:
The left hand menu's already look like Drupal blocks.
Most pages could simply be recreated as Drupal 'page' nodes.
The news would be Drupal 'story' type nodes.
Mailing lists, bug reports etc could simply link out like they do now.
Documentation is where things get tricky. I think the site would benefit from
the docs being integrated into the site (could be a Drupal collaborative book)
but it seems they're currently split between wiki, online versions of Gnucash's
integrated help, and presumably other places out on the net.
But this is all academic unless Linas is willing to let Drupal run on his server
or the project is willing to start paying for hosting elsewhere...
I'd be happy to set up a demo in my own web space if people want to take a
closer look. Also if people want to stick with the current site and just
delegate updating something to me, I'm fine with that. :) But I do need some
direction :)
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