On Jan 15, 2008, at 4:33 PM, grass-dev-request@lists.osgeo.org wrote:
Message: 8
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:45:12 -0800
From: Dylan Beaudette <dylan.beaudette@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] cvs>svn?
To: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Cc: Martin Landa <landa.martin@gmail.com>, Paul Kelly
<paul-grass@stjohnspoint.co.uk>, GRASS developers list
<grass-dev@grass.itc.it>
Message-ID: <200801151545.12454.dylan.beaudette@gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Hamish wrote:
Martin Landa wrote:
BTW it would be great to start migration webpages to Drupal. AFAIU
we are waiting for LDAP-Drupal synchronization(?).Paul:
Would that mean updates to the website would have to be done through
a web-based interface? I'm not sure I'm keen on that. When making a
change to the website it's good to be able to grep to see where the
thing you are changing is mentioned, and change all occurences.This is an important downside to using a CMS like Drupal. A global find /
replace is not easily implemented by default. It may be possible to add this
functionality through a 3rd party module.Before supporting a move to Drupal I would still like to see prototypes
of the GRASS frontpage, download page, and since it's already begun the
screenshots page implemented. How will the final product look?Markus:
One thing I think is critical is that the changes are monitored in some
sort of SCM with change history including author, date, and commit log
message. Does drupal give access to change history?I think that it is possible to have revisioned edits with Drupal, possibly
after enabling some module.Personally I prefer the exactitude of the 'vim' + raw html approach,
and don't like presenting a blog-like page style for a project
homepage. But I look forward to seeing what the Drupal prototype will
look like, or 3rd party examples, and hope my worries can be relieved.Here is an example of a user-powered Drupal site. There are a couple of
add-ons present for pretty-printing code snippets, etc. I would be happy to
comment on any other Drupal related questions.Having said that I am all for lowering barriers to entry to allow more
helpers to contribute. But raw HTML is not very hard, and Markus's nice
CSS setup ensures a consistent and pretty look.I felt this way too. Although, now I am starting to like the ability to easily
define a pile of terms which can be used to index / cross-reference / sort
pages on a Drupal site. This allow rapid navigation by concept rather than
static navigation approaches commonly used on web pages.It would be good to experiment a bit with the new Drupal site, and if it is
not suitable we can always switch to something else.Cheers,
Dylan
I didn't see a link to the Drupal site that Dylan mentioned. Here is one that we recently set up for a new international modeling group. It is still under construction, but you can get an idea of how it looks. There are a LOT of "themes" that you can apply. I suppose that means it is not too hard to create a theme, though I don't know how one does it.
Michael
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