----- Original Message ----- From: Nigel Jones <dev@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "For maintainers and developers of all formal Fedora websites." <fedora-websites-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: one CMS Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:01:38 +1200 >On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 16:01 -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade >> wrote: I'm ready, let's do this. >> >> We need one CMS solution (for sanity sake), although >1 >install might be >> OK(?), to cover: >> >> * fedoraproject.org >> * docs.fedoraproject.org >> >> We need to move some content from the wiki (Licensing/*, >> Legal/*, Packaging*) to the CMS. >> >> Why a CMS? Read this: >> >> >http://iquaid.org/2008/08/13/why-and-where-fedora-needs-a-cms-solution/ >> >> Getting a CMS is a solution to a blocker for upgrading >> MediaWiki. The code we use for MW ACLs is not supported >in the latest release, and our >> version is going out of security update support. By >moving all content >> out of the wiki that needs ACLs, we don't have to have >> that code and upgrading is made possible. That also gets >> us to where we can use Nigel's localization setup. >> >> Reportedly we'll get a speed improvement on the wiki >> without the HNP code. So sayeth Nigel. See >#fedora-admin for details. Okay, heres the run down, in a >completely unscientific test (although nearly scientific), >I found that Mediawiki+HNP makes the wiki THREE times >slower. > >Now the problems also are (with the current setup): >1. HNP does not support Mediawiki > 1.11.2 >2. Per 1. we are locked into Mediawiki 1.11.2 >3. Per 2, we won't have any security updates once Mediawiki >1.13.x comes out (anytime now) >4. We are limited in options for l10n content >5. With the current state of the Mediawiki codebase, it >could be more desirable (imo) for us to work off SVN >versions like Wikipedia etc do (they update the wiki every >couple of days from SVN once it's been proven as working on >the test wiki). 6. HNP is just slow, and the code is >> disgusting. >> CMS must haves >> -------------- >> * Good security record >> * Proactive security mindedness of developer community >> * Flexible enough auth system to attach to FAS >> * RSS >> * ... >> >> CMS should haves >> ---------------- >> * OpenID >> * WYSIWYG editor >> * ... >> >> Have at it! > >http://www.opencms.org > >That said... http://www.silverstripe.com looks rather >nifty. Plus they are having a meetup in Auckland not too >far from me, so if we are interested I'll pop along and say >hi on behalf of Fedora :) > >- Nigel > What about Drupal? http://www.drupal.org - Yannick -- Fedora-websites-list mailing list Fedora-websites-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-websites-list
