Re: Proposal for building knowledgebase website.

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Laszlo Hornyak <kocka(at)forgeahead(dot)hu>
Cc: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Proposal for building knowledgebase website.
Date: 2005-06-09 18:56:13
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On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Laszlo Hornyak wrote:

> Hi!
>
> What about a ready solution such as apache cocoon or lenya? I think it has
> quite a lot of advantages.

'k, not having done much with cocoon except set it up ... how does it
handle mirror sites? I believe with bricolage, the 'content add' is
seperate from the 'display' (you still publish the pages to a central
size, which end-users then make use of) ...

> >
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>> Dave,
>>
>>
>>> All the work is currently being done by people that know HTML so
>>> initially that is all the support that is required, however in the
>>> longterm this will definitely be useful.
>>>
>>
>> Well, that's certainly self-fulfilling.
>> The reason why the number of PostgreSQL websites keeps expanding is partly
>> because the main site is pretty useless to the majority of the community
>> for sharing information. I know that I specifically stopped submitting
>> stuff to Techdocs because I spend more time doing HTML markup than I did
>> writing articles ... and that it was impossible to keeps stuff up to date
>> because it's so hard to edit. And the Brazillian community members I
>> talked to aren't interested in creating or utilizing a Brazillian version
>> of the main site because it doesn't allow them to share information the way
>> their wiki does.
>>
>> If you and Robert are happy being the sole content providers for
>> PostgreSQL.org in perpetuity, then by all means don't use a CMS. But
>> maybe you should recognize what you're doing.
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> László Hornyák
>
>
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