Previously MJ Ray wrote: > Wichert Akkerman <wich...@wiggy.net> wrote: > > Previously MJ Ray wrote: [...] > > > 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? > > Sure - these aren't necessarily solid arguments *against* Plone > (except that we're inexpert at it), but rather *for* ikiwiki+git. > > Could you point me at how, please? I've not been an admin on a Plone > site for 6 or 8 years, I didn't know disconnected editing was possible > and I'm writing for other projects using Plone for their websites in > the near future, so it would be useful for me to know. I didn't find > anything useful searching plone.org for "disconnected" or browsing the > documentation.
I did not understand you were talking about working disconnectedly. That is something Plone does not support (nor is it very high on the todo-list). > [...] > > > 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. > > Actually, "corrupted the database by trying to download" is my > mistake. I don't know that for sure. I just think it's the most > probable explanation, but it could have been the attempts to add a new > user to plone which broke it, or simply the phase of the moon. > > As far as I know, the download attempt was simply a davfs mount, then > tar czvf content.tar.gz mountpoint. It seemed an extremely unlikely > breakage to me too, but that didn't make anyone any happier with us > after www.spi-inc.org was replaced by some error messages! I can see that producing errors if you had some magic filenames in there that conflicted with some ids plone uses internally. But that is something different than a corrupted database, and generally easy to fix. 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
