Tim Parkin wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: [various stuff] > It would be apparent to you if you'd read around (even within this list) > that the website is ultimately intended to have 'through the web' > editing tools. You'd also know that one of the biggest acheivements so > far is the separation of template from data from content so that > 'information sets' actually exist in the first place. This also means > that when someone designs a better template (as they may well do) it can > be easily changed in the future. > > We also don't really want to have a proliferation of text formats and as > a lot of the website is already written using restructured text, this is > the format thats been recommended. A wiki is not a website and to try to > shoehorn a wiki into a content management system is not a good final > goal. We are adding facilities to use the wiki to manage some pages in > near future as part of migration. > > However, the priority was to do certain things first. > > 1) Separate content from data from presentation is as complete a way as > possible (for which nevow templates, which contain no programmatic > componenets are suitable). > > 2) Ensure that the system is usable using basic text editing tools > > 3) Build the website using the latest techniques ensuring accessibility > and usability. The site is XHTML and uses CSS for layout. It also offers > legacy style sheets for netscape and has been tested in speech readers > and text browsers. how quaint.. > > 4) Needed someone to actually do something .... > > The last item seems to be the one that has hit the most hurdles. As I > remember you were a member of the marketing list and have had many > opportunities to contribute constructively at planning time. > > If you could choose to be constructive in either offering useful changes > that would make sense at this point in time or offereing to provide help > that would be greatly appreciated. > > I'm afraid I won't be able to respond at length to any more posts.. > There is still a lot of work to be done to get the website live. > The most valid point that Fredrik makes is the convenience and desirability of through-the-web editing. I hope he'll use some of his undoubted energy to examine the current systems design and produce a through-the-web interface for us. Once the new documentation site is up and running, that is :-)
Seriously, I'm not aware of anything about the current design that would prohibit through-the-web editing. Neither am I aware of anyone spending the time to produce it. As you indicated, there are other priorities just at the moment. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
