[kdewebdev-site] CMS or our own code

[Philipp Wendisch]

Andras Mantia wrote:
>> Agree, this is roughly what I was saying. :)
>> The sites are a way for Andras and the others to "Eat their own dog
>> food" as they say in the programming world. So, by using a CMS, they'd
>> be eating someone else's dog food. ;)

right!

> 
> I'm just talking with Jens on IRC (#quanta channel) about Drupal's
> features. The truth is that I like some things it can do, but also it is
> very true what Chris wrote here.
>  I'm very undecided which way to go. :) So I'd like to get some feedback
> about which way we should go.
>  Of course, I don't want to write eg. our own forum software. Probably
> would be also nice to provide a way for users to add content to the site,
> like tutorials, articles, maybe blogs.
>  As I see a mix of a CMS and our code is something I'd like to see. But as
> I'm only a developer (and mainly C++ developer), I really don't know what
> is better.
>  I'm also interested in the opinion of the subsite application maintainers.
> 
> Andras


There is one saying from Andras Pëto, which could easily be adapted:

It's not what the could we do to help the child, but what can the child do to
help himself.

A forum would be a nice idea, which of course should be one that's not so easy
to exploit. I recommend (if it should be written in php) invisionboard, because
it is no so overloaded with functions and quite fast. Could perhaps be hosted
on talk.kdewebdev.org?

And after all I like the idea of a blog. Wordpress has one cool feature: email
to post. which means: send an email to a predefined adress, and it will
automagically become a post on the blog... cool, isn't it?

A tutorial section would be cool, especially for beginners. For advanced users
it may not be neccessary, but for some reason this might be cool, to simply
pick up some fine snippets ;-). that's why I love forum.sun.com. it's a nice
resource (of course the mailing-list is).

Personally, I do not want another 'how can I do this with php'-page, but a page
that helps developers (beginners and intermediate, pros will know where to look
for) in using the kdewebdev-module more efficient, along with the faq and the
mailing-lists.



-- 
Philipp Wendisch

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