Re: Re[4]: GNUstep.org

[Helge Hess]

On 08.01.2004, at 16:34, Adam Fedor wrote:
> > Would we lose nearly all our mirrors? We have the gnustep.org ones 
> > and the gnu.org ones. That's why I'm jumping through hoops to 
> > retemplate it and part of why it takes a while.
> >
> > IMO, the problem is that we need more help. A glossy CMS with 
> > insufficient help will still be bad, just as the current web site 
> > with insufficient help has been bad.
> I agree completely. There are many sites that gnustep is mirrored on 
> and many of them don't even have PHP, much less anything more useful.
>
> Also, while MJ and Scott and others have done a great job with the 
> site design, there are huge portions of the content that haven't been 
> updated in years and no one has even suggested updating them, much 
> less done any work to do it.

Notably OGo also contains a small website publishing system (called OGo 
Publisher) which is used to generate the OGo website. You can either 
use it in combination with OGo itself (which gives you a web interface 
for editing and testing stuff), but also with a filesystem storage. Eg 
for OGo we store all the OGo webpages in CVS:
  http://www.opengroupware.org/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/www/.
The .xtmpl files are the templates.

Drawback is, that the generation of a complete website is relatively 
slow (eg the OGo website takes about 10-15 minutes for 2500 pages).

Maybe this is also worth a consideration given that it is Objective-C 
based (maybe soon gstep-base based? ;-) and produces static sites 
suitable for mirroring.

Greets,
  Helge
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