Last week I had the A-level exams. So I had no time to answer. Sorry! I read all your comments.
To avoid misunderstanding next time: With a simple CMS system, I mean some small scripts that allowed the Admins to edit the Pages with an online editor (wysiwyg rich text editor like http://www.kevinroth.com/rte/demo.htm ). The benefit of such a simple editor plus some small scripts to manage and reorder some site parts, is that it is simple and effective. The only function the CMS provide that is visible for the end-user is the homepage generation: This simple CMS will have a function to generate the static pages from the databased source (added with the wysiwyg editor) and store the output in different directories (e.g. english: "/en/" ; german: "/de/" ; ...) and set the links/paths in a correct way.
Another purpose of the CMS: Easy to edit content for language translators (with wysiwyg editor).
In my opinion, Mambo (or any other CMS (or Wiki) solution) is not so good for our needs. The mayor feature should be to generate static html/xhtml pages without any overhead!
The other features I mentioned are only minor features that can be implemented as "plugins" as small php scripts included with the wysiwyg editor. So there is no reason to "vote" against it. These features are not important (only extras)!
Compatibility / Package Manager Page: In my opinion, this database should be coded in php like the appdb from winehq or similar. But wine's appdb is not so powerfull as needed for ReactOS (software + hardware, packages, etc. in one database). So I think it speak nothing against. So it make sense to write such a database php script for ReactOS. Show me a good application database! I know many similar pages, but all are crappy or inconvenient. It is my freetime ... but I want to create the best solution for such a compatibility and package manager database. Please visit http://frik85.reactos.at for more information about this. -> http://reactosde.re.funpic.de/mediadetail.php?sec=Articles&cat=ideas&... -> http://reactosde.re.funpic.de/mediadetail.php?sec=Articles&cat=ideas&... -> http://frik85.fr.funpic.de/packmgr/
Best regards, Klemens Friedl
P.S.: I will be on holiday ("Maturareise" or "Abiturreise") until 2005-07-11.