Hi:
I think we should also be considering the other major players in the
CMS game, if there are people available to deploy and maintain them.
Drupal and Joomla! immediately come to mind, the latter especially
because it actually has some DocBook XML support. Features aren't
particularly compelling, though, if we have no one around to help with
the maintenance.
+1 to your statement regarding maintenance. There are too many choices
for CMS under three major platforms PHP, Python, JAVA, Ruby on rails
etc., Enlisting some here that I have supported/ maintained:
1. JAVA based
Apache Jackrabbit, Liferay
2. Python based
Plone, Django framework
3. PHP based
Mediawiki, Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla
As Paul mentions, each of these CMS come with their own "features"/
"necessity for extension" which of course is based on what we need as
a group as in, how to:
- structure content - can be viewed from maintenance (or) usability perspective
- involve volunteers
- customize the framework
- maintain
- volunteer base and their associated knowledge of choice of platform
- localization concerns
Am still catching up on all IRC logs/ email archives so some of the
listed were perhaps already reviewed and addressed :)
None of this has any bearing on the quality of Zikula, which I'm sure
is excellent.
Zikula looks cool indeed.
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Gayathri Swaminathan
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Volunteer, FDP