----- Original Message ----- From: "Naheem Zaffar" <naheemzaffar@xxxxxxxxx> To: fedora-websites-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Drupal CMS for Fedora Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:45:53 +0100 >Hi all, > >Just registered with this list after reading Karsten's blog >on Planet Fedora. > >As the title suggests, I would recommend Drupal as a CMS. > >It has a modular design, and I expect it would not be too >much effort to create a module to auth against FAS and >there are many additional hooks. It has roles/groups based >permissions which can be added to via additional access >modules - specify who can view/edit/add what and where - >all separated via "content type". Version 6.x of Drupal >also has good internationalisation support from what I >hear. > >RSS comes as standard, as does book/outline ability which >is similar to the documentation system pages/contents >currently used. > >It has good theming potential where the themes are pretty >well separated from the content. The main benefit of Drupal >is the contributed modules, Mainly CCK and Views. > >CCK - custom content types, allows you to create custom >content types with as many/few fields needed - you can >create a content type that has a predefined number of >fields/text area's for whatever is needed. This could be >extremely useful for things such as the feature process. > >"Views" can be used to list/display things in various ways >depending on arguments provided to it. Very powerful. > >through the use of pathauto module, you can add url >namespacing which may be of benefit to some. > >Admittedly a lot of the community oriented featured would >proabably be go unused on the fpo website, but there are >plenty of others that are very useful. > I agree with Naheem and also made the suggestion in the other thread started on the mailing list regarding a CMS solution being needed for fp.o. - Yannick -- Fedora-websites-list mailing list Fedora-websites-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-websites-list
