Re: [Webware-devel] Website RFC

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 08:53, Tom von Schwerdtner wrote:
> Q: Who are the folks who maintain the current site?

Currently the website is a module in the CVS repository, and some of the
developers tweak it from time to time.  No one seems to have really
claimed it, as in regularly updating it and taking responsibility for
the content.

> Feel free to vote/comment/whatever on these:
> 
> * It would be cool of the wiki was done with pydiddy (on this
> self-hosting theme again).  It needs a little work (caching and whatnot)
> but it seems doable enough.

Sure, though I'd really like a Wiki with reST -- I've written a rough
one for a recent paper.  I'll put it in the sandbox soon.  I like reST,
though of course it's not as flexible as HTML... I'm not sure how
PyDiddy's markup is in that respect.

> * Anything else people want in the website?  Interface to the sandbox
> perhaps?

We should certainly reference the sandbox, and at some point we should
have an index of things in the sandbox (though we're not there now). 
The whole thing could probably be organized better.

> * How is the current website setup as far as maintaining it goes (how
> are new news items added for example)?  Is anyone particularly attached
> to the current methods?  Anyone prefer a specific alternative?

It's written in SHTML in the CVS repository.  I like that it's in CVS,
but there's nothing special about it otherwise.

If we were to stay with a static site, or at least a static
front-section, it might be better to do it with Cheetah generating
static HTML.

  Ian