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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Site Maintenance
From:       John RIzzo <John.Rizzo () Qwest ! com>
Date:       2001-12-14 16:31:38
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Please excuse my response to my own email but I also wanted to ask people to 
contribute any ideas, recommendations, or feature requests.

John

On Friday 14 December 2001 11:10, John Rizzo wrote:
> Hey guys.
>
> I posted a message to kde-www and I haven't really gotten much of a
> response back other than that the site seems to be working.
>
> Here is what I propose.  I would like to take an active roal in maintaining
> the site.  I want to make sure that everyone that needs to be able to
> modify the site has the ability as is the case now.  I would also like to
> add the ability for people to update the site via the web and not just
> through cvs while still mainting features such as revision control.
>
> I am also interested in adding the ability to create versions of the site
> so that we can update and make changes to the site without them becoming
> visible until the changes are ready and tested.
>
> We should keep the features of the site that update themselves
> automatically such as the api section, etc.  I would like to add the
> ability for the site to automatically download information from other sites
> that pertain to kde. Obviously this would have to go through some kind of
> moderation to ensure that the news/information pertains to kde and is
> appropriate.
>
> Ok so one step at a time right.  I believe that I can accomplish much of
> this using zope as the content management system.  I would like to take the
> current incarnation of the site and duplicate it using zope.  I would use
> all the usefull utilities such as templates, caching, etc that are
> available through zope.  Much of the dynamic sections of the site that use
> php can still be leveraged since integrating php with zope is trivial. 
> Once this proof of concept is available and consistant with the existing
> site I can make it available to other people that are interested in helping
> with the site and see what they think.  Any appropriate changes could be
> made.  Then when its ready would could implement it as kde.org.
>
> I am only offering this because I would like to see the kde.org site become
> more popular than it already is.  I believe that if I am able to separate
> the site structure from the content we would be able to get more people to
> contribute and it would make life easier for those that already contribute.
> And it will make adding features to the site easier.  I also believe that
> the site should be worked on in a manner similar to the rest of the kde
> development.  We should make timelines and tasks just like with other
> aspects of the project.
>
> Let me know what you guys think.  If people agree then I could start
> working on it next week.

-- 
John Rizzo, Sr. Systems Engineer
Hosting Engineering			John.Rizzo@Qwest.com
Qwest Inernet Solutions			201-770-4191
 
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