Re: [gentoo-dev] Plans for new website.

[Holger Brueckner]

OK I'm new to zope myself but it really looks like you should have
a look at zope + cmf (content management framework, was
portal toolkit). i would say that around 60 to 70% of your wanted
items have a out of the box solution ...

http://www.zope.org
http://cmf.zope.org

just a thought :)

darks

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Trygve Kalleberg" <karltk@×××××××.no>
To: <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 5:24 PM
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Plans for new website.


> Hi gentooers.
>
> <t4k30v4r>
>
> IRC junkies drobbins, g2boojum, Thread, myself and a few passers-by had a
> fruitful discussion on how to restructure/upgrade/extend the gentoo.org
web
> system in the near future.
>
> Here are the results of that first conversation. If anybody has anything
to
> add, criticisms to make, or want to help out on any of parts, please post
> back to this list.
>
> List of points:
>
>
>  - Divide gentoo web system into two disjoint parts:
> - dynamic, for developers
> - static, for end-users
>
>   Rationale: We do not have enough server horsepowers (in terms of
bandwidth)
>   to have a fully-dynamic end-user site, if we get the number of users
that we
>   wish for.
>
>  - Use XML for all documents
>
>   Rationale: XML here is just a fancy name for "structured". I'll not bore
>   you with why we think structured documents are far superior to
unstructured
>   ones. Start a new thread for this flamewar ;p
>
>  - It would be cool if
> - We could just add a file to a directory, and it'd show up on the
> site (g2boojum)
> - the main page had news, in the spirit of PHPNuke (drobbins)
> - had a "last updated" thing on each page (drobbins)
> - shrank the top header bar to 1/2 the height (drobbins)
> - more effectively used the left link area (drobbins)
> - had a "printable version" of each page (drobbins)
> - had a package database online (drobbins)
> - had a section for bios of the dev team (drobbins)
> - had bug-reporting features in the package database (karltk)
> - had an online-shoppe of olde and fresh gentoo cds (drobbins)
> - the dev-wiki was extended to support team-work (drobbins)
> - had team pages, which contains: (drobbins)
> - name of the team
> - list of team members
> - title of each member
> - team email
> - team mailing list
> - up-to-date list of all packages managed by the team
> - contents of stable team release
> - contents of unstable team release
> - outstanding problems with stable release
> - outstanding problems with unstable release
> - team leader
> - team-wiki
> - merge team wikis with main wiki, using a team-field in all posts
> (g2boojum)
> - mirroring dynamic stuff is troublesome (karltk)
> - search facility on the main site (karltk)
> - icon/color for each time in the mega-wiki (Thread, karltk)
> - parsing comments in each ebuild to add it to a team's
> responsibility list (drobbins, karltk)
> - we could add new teams and in the future, sub teams. (drobbins)
>
>   Note: This is the list of "neat stuff we want". Please add new things
>   here. If any of the points on this list isn't understandable, please
make
>   notify the list and I'll clarify as best as I can.
>
>   Rationale: We intend for this list to "float around" for a week or two,
so
>   that everybody get their chance to contribute and come with input. Then
the
>   web team will traverse the list in prioritised order and implement the
>   features (more or less ;p).
>
> If the majority if the developers think the dichotomy of the web site is
> acceptable, we should perhaps split this discussion off into two threads.
>
> Especially important to uncover in the developers section would be how we
> envision teams to operate. Which support facilities do they need from the
web
> system ? Bug database, package lists, task lists, etc, etc..
>
> The end-user section will probably stay fairly rudimentary for a bit
longer,
> as we simply don't have too much content here. As we manage to collect
more
> HOWTOs, we should look into how to structure this.
>
> In the meantime, should we forward wayward users to linuxdoc.org in some
way ?
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Karl T
>
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