Previously MJ Ray wrote: > Wichert Akkerman <wich...@wiggy.net> wrote: > > Previously Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > For the website, do not assume we stay with Plone much longer. Currently > > > you can assume we are switching to ikiwiki and have the storage in > > > git. So thats where you want to base your code on, but that should be a > > > few $VCS add/comit/push commands only. > > > > Out of curiosity: why? > > We (Ganneff, Hydroxide, me, bdale, luk_ and mc in roughly that order > of culpability) considered plone, ikiwiki, drupal, MT and wordpress. > As I understand it, ikiwiki is the current plan because:- > > 1. all currently-interested webmasters seem comfortable with > ikiwiki+git and some have previous experience with it;
Excellent reason. > 2. it should allow easier contributions from people without prior > approval - able to edit stuff without ever touching an spi machine; Plone should make that just as easy. Why do people find this painful currently? > 3. both web-based and text-editor-based contributions are possible; Plone does that as well. > 4. ikiwiki creates static pages which are served up by a normal httpd, > so the core website should break less often; I almost never see Plone sites break, but a static httpd is bound to be more reliably or at least scale better without much effort. > 5. we failed to add a new user to plone, then corrupted the database > by trying to download a copy of the page content from its webdav, then > discovered that a special "copy-the-plone-db-in-a-consistent-state" > command should have been run at backup time. It's mainly by the > persistence of Ganneff and kind help from some (unknown to me) Plone > experts that most of the current site was recovered. Wow. I wonder how you managed to do that! That sounds like extremely unlikely breakage. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <wich...@wiggy.net> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
