Re: [Firebird-website] A few thoughts about (new) site structure,

[Pavel C. <pc...@ib...>]

Giovanni Premuda napsal(a):
> Pavel Cisar wrote:
>> It means that we have allocated time to do some actual work, and 
>> we're going to do some initial groundwork that has to be done
>> before more hands could start to work on more content, actual
>> design, layout, graphics, whatever.
>>
> Work that could be shared with the community, if only you would share
> it with us. It would also be a good starting point for most of us to
> get our hands dirty.

If there will be something to share, we'll certainly share it. Right
now, there is nothing to share, yet.

> By the way reStructuredText and the template structures *are*
> management decisions.


No, they're *technical* decisions. And both could be easily changed
anytime down the road.

If you really need to know *everything* at micromanagement level, then I
deliberately decided to use reStructured Text because:

0. We have to use something instead HTML.
1. I know it well.
2. It's basically just a plain text that doesn't need any special tools
to edit it, has no markup (well, sort of minimal for some things and
it's actually more a writing convention than real markup) and could be
easily transformed programmatically to whatever markup we would
eventually decide to use.
3. I'm going to hack up some code for automatic conversion from HTML to
reStructured Text, so we don't need to clean it up manually and can
focus on shuffling simple blocks of text around.

So, the rationale is that we would quickly and with minimal effort
convert HTML into "portable" format that's easy to work with for
everyone while it doesn't impose any significant restriction for further
processing and "change of mind" any time later.

About templates, their format wasn't decided yet. I'll worry about it
once we'll get to that, but now it's premature. Anyway, it could be
changed any time, although the set of options would be certainly limited
to those supported by underlying technology behind the site.

best regards
Pavel Cisar