Thanks for spurring this effort along, Patrick!
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Patrick Barnes wrote:
We really need to move forward on selecting a CMS.
It is highly unlikely that we'll see a PHP solution selected. I've
heard many calls for Drupal, but let's not count on it. In particular,
if a PHP solution is chosen, we'll have to be very, very careful in
picking it out, and we'll probably need to disable any more dangerous
functionality. In the case of Drupal and many others, that would
include XML-RPC.
Agreed.
There aren't many Python solutions out there, but we need to
scour what
is available very carefully. Many people were or would have been
doubtful of what we could accomplish with MoinMoin, and look at all
we've managed to do. The Fedora Project wiki is at the top of the list
of MoinMoin's list of example wikis[1]. We can accept that there may
need to be work done on whatever solution we select to get it where we
want it. We've got a large pool of talent that will be wiling to help
with that.
So I've been looking around for a CMS, on and off, for proably four or
five months. I'll just throw my ideas so far out there as a starting
point:
. Zope. We just have to look at it seriously because it's in
Python. Its main weaknesses are performance and ease of use.
. Drupal. PHP. Very cool in general. Main weakness is the security
concerns. It also lacks a version history of pages, which is
something important to me personally.
. Typo3 is a CMS-type thing in PHP. Its biggest shortcoming when I
tried it was its complexity.
. Midgard is a PHP CMS that I haven't looked into. Someone should
evaluate it, because its features look very attractive overall.
. Turbogears and Django. Two Python web "frameworks" that make it
easier to write web apps, but don't offer an actual CMS
themselves.
. Various Java solutions such as Apache Lenya. Haven't looked into
this space much, even though it's probably where the most
action is.
. What we've got already. The basic idea is perfectly sound, and
everyone knows how to use CVS. This is the baseline that the new
solution needs to improve on, so one good question is "what do we
need that we don't have now?"
I do not consider wikis a viable starting point. They don't seem conducive
to keeping the site organized. Maybe there is one out there that has the
features necessary to do this, but I haven't seen those features in
Moinmoin. :)
http://www.la-grange.net/cms has a list of open source CMS's.
Best,
-- Elliot
Unanswered questions in The Matrix: What happens if you take both the red
pill AND the blue pill?