[CentOS-devel] A new look for CentOS (was Re: Italian Translation Team)

Mon Jan 31 07:48:15 UTC 2011
Marcus Moeller <marcus.moeller at gmx.ch>

Hi all.

>> +100 to that.
>>
>> To me it is fairly evident that the website content isn't maintained on
>> any sort of regular basis hence the current rot. The website might as
>> well be a (fairly) static landing site pointing to things like downloads
>> of the latest release, the Wiki, the forums, the mailing lists, the IRC
>> channels etc where the active community actually resides. IMHO the Wiki
>> largely replaces the need for any CMS.
>
> I'm starting to give more and more importance to this idea. Also we can
> easily maintain such website through a git repository where contributors
> can push the changes directly to the code preventing any issue with LDAP
> and cms-ldap integration.
>
> The combos static website (HTML/CSS etc), phpbb and the existing wiki /
> mailing lists can make a clean and nice alternative to our original idea
> of setting up a cms.

But again leads to the demand of a LDAP user management solution.

Greets
Marcus