[RULE] The SPIP CMS as the basis for a RULE-project website

[C David Rigby]

Good (UTC+1) to everybody,

As previously threatened, I have written a report about a CMS called 
SPIP that can be accessed on the testing server here:

http://rule-test.homelinux.org/SPIP-report.html

I put it there rather send a large file out across the mailing list. 
Please read it and comment on it here in the mailing list.

The SPIP website is here:

http://www.spip.net/

The executive summary:

1. No CMS that I looked at completely matched our requirements as 
described by Marco a month ago.  I finally settled on investigating SPIP 
because:

* It has at least some of the features we need (though many of the other 
CMS packages did also).

* It is relatively "light-weight" (no requirement for frames, 
client-side scripting, etc.).

* It has a very flexible design, holding out the promise of extending it 
to meet all of our needs.

2. Without going into detail here (please read the report) I have 
concluded that extending SPIP to do the job is feasible.

3. Will I be finished setting it up by the beginning of April such that 
we can install it on Rodolfo's server?  Eh, er, well, ummm...no.  A 
basic site is probably within reach by then.  However, a number of the 
features we want will require adding things that are not in the basic 
package.  I am quite willing to undertake to do them, but since it is 
not going to be on my server, I need to do them well.  Two weeks (plus 
the fact that I will be out-of-town and far off-net from 4/3 through 
4/11) is not sufficient time.

Please let me know what you think...

Thanks
CDR