Hallo,
(I cc the list, I guess it was meant to go there as well. pd-list doesn't set a Reply-To-List.)
A Whillas hat gesagt: // A Whillas wrote:
Why this discussion if Plone already so good?
I've never used Plone before so I don't know its strengths and
weaknesses. Perhaps the current site is just badly structured and can
be made right with some adjustments, but looking at plone.org and
puredata.info they give the feeling of a Wiki not a community site.
Indeed, the structuring is the problem, and not the capabilities of the underlying CMS. Plone can be used to build everything that Drupal could be used for. Work on making a better structure is well needed, but just replacing the software is superfluous and a waste of energy, in my opinion.
I guess being able to see new articles, new forum topics, news
updates on the front page is what gives you the feeling of life from
the site.
Possible with Plone. Acutally it's already in effect in the sidebar, which syndicates every public "News" item tagged as one in every users home folder. But people don't use this feature that often. I just used it to illustrate the idea. I'm all for making the sidebar the center column btw.
And it is administered by IEM, who run all their stuff with Plone,
so there's quite a bit of knowledge and experience already there,I'm guessing the Drupal community is probably bigger. Who are IEM by
the way?
Institute of Electronic Music. Also the biggest Pd center in Europe, where the first Pd convention was hold. Also where this list and puredata.info is hosted.
not to mention the tons of content that has been uploaded already
and hundreds (statistics, IOhannes?) of registered users.Can all be migrated. The surprising thing is you can't tell there is
all that content. And if you can't access/find it then its the same
as it not being there.
But just migrating it won't solve anything. Why bother with setting up a completely new system, when the current system could be made to do anything, the new system could be made to do, as well? Or rather: Why not work on making the current system address the valid points you mention?
2224 users isn't really going to be a migration problem :-)
I see this a bit differently: Migrating just the account data would be no problem, but setting it up so that old URLs to old content continue to work, teaching the 2224 users about the new system, etc. is quite a problem. And what would we gain?
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__