[Tclweb-admin] hello!

[Mark H. <ma...@us...>]

If you're receiving this message, it's because at some time or
another we have discussed tcltk.com.  Now that some of the other
things I've been working on for the TCT (such as sourceforge)
are well under way, I want to get this project going.

If you're not interested, then maximum apologies to you.

I want to make the new tcltk.com (also known as tcltk.org)
a useful site that works in conjunction with the sourceforge
site.

I would like to recruit a number of "content editors" who are
interested in working on a particular part of the website
which might interest them.  That's why you're receiving this
message.

Here is my vision for how things will be set up:

We have a linux box hosted by Verio running
    apache
    KAP (embeds tcl into web pages)
    mysql

All the web content is managed via cvs.  I've had some good
luck with this approach at some of our customer sites.  You
can back things out, see what crackers have done, etc.
It's also nice for distributed management, since modifications
are made to the repository instead of being put directly
on the site.

I've created the "tclweb" project to support this.  Changes are
pushed onto the "tclweb" cvs repository, and then populated (by
some means) to the server machine.

This is an easily clonable setup, which gives two advantages:

1.  It's easy for someone to set up a mirror site.  Put the
    software on your system, and checkout the content from
    sourceforge.

2.  It's easy for someone to stage... if you're a content
    editor, just run the software on your own linux box and
    edit the content as you like.  When it's reached the
    point of perfection, just "cvs commit" and have it
    automatically pushed onto the web site.  If you goof
    up, do any of the normal cvs things and have the content
    restored as you like it.

My own feeling is that tcltk.com does not need to be a
"comprehensive" portal site, but should be a good starting
point for anyone needing to find tcl resources.  That's why
my first efforts were aimed at pushing as many things as possible
over to sourceforge.  I don't want to do everything, but instead
focus on the maximum return on (time) investment.

I'm also tending to downplay this quarter's suddenly hot "p2p"
personalization trend.  It can provide some value, but I think
that the relative effort is a bit high for the value received.

Anyways, I'm interested in what you think...  let me know!

Mark

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