[CentOS-devel] Website Version 2, next steps

Wed Feb 23 18:23:05 UTC 2011
James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca>

----- Original Message -----
| ----- Original Message -----
| | Il giorno 23/feb/2011, alle ore 19.00, Karanbir Singh ha scritto:
| |
| | > On 02/23/2011 01:06 PM, Andrea Veri wrote:
| | >>> Suggestions for a solution for the web site - please no
| | >>> "Joompal3,
| | >>
| | >> Drupal:
| | >>
| | >> 1. it has feeds support and they are easy to implement
| | >
| | > On the flip side : if primary content on the website is going to
| | > be
| | > generated / project based rather than lots of text / cms style
| | > content;
| | > then do we need much more than a few static pages with the right
| | > css
| | > thrown in on top - and let the apps run as they do with the same
| | > css
| | > (
| | > as much as possible ).
| | >
| | > Would drupal in this case not be a total overkill ?
| |
| | Going with static pages would be nice yes, but it is not really
| | easy to maintain. We would need a git repo with special permissions
| | and whatever. Drupal with its own account management can simplify
| | this duty and allow multiple people to edit only part of the content
| | available
| | on the website. (i.e we have the administrator role that can modify
| | modules,
| | and pretty much everything, we do have the editor role that can
| | modify
| | just
| | stories and other minor things)
| |
| | On a drupal istance adding and managing content is really easy,
| | while
| | doing a website from scratch (css, html, php, ...) can take more
| | time
| | to be
| | developed and can take some of us to disagree on how the website
| | will
| | look like.
| | (building a website requires a project and a lot of work to organize
| | the content
| | itself and its structure, while this won't actually happen with
| | Drupal, since any of
| | us have seen or played with a working drupal istance before today
| | and
| | know
| | how and where the content is managed)
| |
| | Adopting static pages can be hard to maintain for a team, yet
| | another
| | vcs to
| | push stuff to. But anyway I am open to any idea, my main interest is
| | to change
| | things making the current website a bit more useful and nice.
| |
| | Just my two cents.
| |
| | Andrea
| 
| 
| I would highly recommend using CVS to maintain the base Drupal and
| third party module instances. Using CVS with the appropriate stable
| tags makes it easy to upgrade from version to version and makes
| maintenance of the thousands of Drupal modules much easier.
| 
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| James A. Peltier
| IT Services - Research Computing Group
| Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus
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| E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca
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See: Checking out from the main repository

http://drupal.org/node/320


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James A. Peltier
IT Services - Research Computing Group
Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus
Phone   : 778-782-6573
Fax     : 778-782-3045
E-Mail  : jpeltier at sfu.ca
Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices
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