[Design] Preview Countdown Meeting -- website technologies agenda item

[Ted Leung]

I'm in favor of moving everything to the wiki.

The problem here is not technology, it's poor human organization of  
the information, which Priss/Mimi/Pieter are working to rectify based  
on the Portal Project taxonomy.   If we fix that problem, I think the  
wiki is more than adequate.  If we don't fix that problem, no CMS in  
the world can help us.

Ted

On Mar 30, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Jared Rhine wrote:

> Matthew Eernisse wrote:
>> We've talked about this before, but my vote would be to use this  
>> opportunity to move the basic Web sites to an actual CMS.
>
> For some context, we think we're talking about something like less  
> than 15 pages.  It's not sure yet, as we're just now doing a site  
> tree so we can enumerate the separate pages.
>
>> Do we have a list of criteria to help us decide what type of  
>> technology solution we want to use?
>
> My criteria, when I first raised the techn question, was "number of  
> pages", "frequency of changes", and "amount of dynamism".
>
> I've two nits with our current system I'd love to improve: remove  
> showing of extensions (*.php) in URLs, and use of a templating  
> system which guarantees XHTML-compliant output.
>
> Also, Pieter and others are rightfully concerned about nav/look/ 
> function mismatch between our landing pages and the wiki.  He's  
> asking questions now about to what extent all of the pages in our  
> landing pages could move into the wiki.
>
> There's some other crazy ideas ("replace wiki with Drupal"), but  
> another criteria is we're sort of buttoned-up on our sites and  
> technology in the next two months and so stable going into Preview.
>
> My view, is that we're probably looking at a small handful of  
> static pages, is a lightweight Python web framework with a nice  
> templating language.  Probably Pylons+Genshi or Turbogears+Genshi.   
> I'm waiting for site maps to be fleshed out before making official  
> recommendations.
>
> -- Jared
>
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