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On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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> Am Samstag, 5. Januar 2013, 16:46:07 schrieb Roy Bamford: |
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>> > That said, why the hell are we wasting time implementing our own |
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>> > website |
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>> > backend when we should be using a CMS? We're here to make a distro, |
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>> > not |
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>> > a website framework. No reason we should care, day to day, about |
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>> > anything but frontend theming and content. |
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>> Donnie. |
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>> We make our own website framework for the same reason that everything |
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>> else happens in Gentoo. Someone is interested in doing it. |
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>> I agree its not 'core business' but Gentoo isn't a business. |
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> Even if you're not a business you should care about maintainable solutions. |
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I'm sure at the time it was created (12+ years ago) the website looked |
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pretty maintainable :) |
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-A |
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> -- |
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> Andreas K. Huettel |
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> Gentoo Linux developer |
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> dilfridge@g.o |
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> http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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