RE: [ros-dev] New Release - how're you feeling?

[Murphy, Ged (Bolton)]

Casper Hornstrup wrote:
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> > Subject: RE: [ros-dev] New Release - how're you feeling?
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> > AFAIK, the new design consists of a front page only so far. 
> > We need a whole new Content Management System to control the entire

site.
> We have MediaWiki.
>
> Casper

Yeah, but MediaWiki isn't really a core website. More an information
gathering environment.

I'm thinking along the lines of full, browsable website, with core sections
like:
About, Features, Screenshots, news, Licence, Download links, Documentation,
Forums, View cvs, Wiki, FAQ/Howto, Bugzilla, Mailing lists, Status,
Resources.

Something along the lines of www.gentoo.org, or www.winehq.com

Yes, we could write our own design from scratch, or we could use pre-built
CMS like some of the below, which I listed last year sometime in the mailing
list:

<snip>
 WebGUI - http://www.plainblack.com/webgui
 Appears to be very popular and was recommended by quite a few people.
 Performance is very good as are the features it offers
 Quick overview available here
 http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix?wid=2&func=viewDetail&listingId=1001

Mambo - http://mamboserver.com/
 Recommended by many people to me, and has glowing reports from all the
sites
 I visited. Certainly my favourite.
 Quick overview available here
 http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix?wid=2&func=viewDetail&listingId=1074

Confluence - http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/  
 This was recommended to me by a friend. I am going only off his
 recommendation.
 I've looked at other websites that use it and it appears to be good,
 although I don't have any performance statistics.

OpenCMS - http://www.opencms.org/opencms/en/
 This was also recommended, but I wasn't overly impressed by it.

OpenSourceCMS - http://www.opensourcecms.com/

Overviews and statistics of many CMS' can be found here -
 http://www.cmsmatrix.org/
</snip>

Ged

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[Ge van Geldorp]

> From: Murphy, Ged (Bolton)
>
> Yeah, but MediaWiki isn't really a core website. More an 
> information gathering environment.
>
> I'm thinking along the lines of full, browsable website, with 
> core sections like:
> About, Features, Screenshots, news, Licence, Download links, 
> Documentation, Forums, View cvs, Wiki, FAQ/Howto, Bugzilla, 
> Mailing lists, Status, Resources.

With all respect to the people who've worked on the website before, I think
it is obvious that having only 1 or 2 people managing the contents doesn't
work too well. Can't we use something like WineHQ, where the contents are
stored in CVS (would be SVN for us ofcourse) and everyone can submit
patches?

Gé van Geldorp.

[Casper Hornstrup]

> Yeah, but MediaWiki isn't really a core website. More an information
> gathering environment.
>
> I'm thinking along the lines of full, browsable website, with core sections
> like:
> About, Features, Screenshots, news, Licence, Download links, Documentation,
> Forums, View cvs, Wiki, FAQ/Howto, Bugzilla, Mailing lists, Status,
> Resources.
>
> Something along the lines of www.gentoo.org, or www.winehq.com

I'm dead serious when I say a static html front page and a wiki is enough for us.
Of all the (CMS) systems we've tried in the past, none if them have been as
successful as the wiki (or even close to it). The content was always very
outdated. MediaWiki is simple to use and anyone with a browser and Internet access
can make changes very easily and without much training.

Casper