Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 13:07:57 -0700 From: Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: advocacy site Message-ID: <19990804130757.A90374@dub.net> In-Reply-To: <19990804202619.A71192@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 08:26:19PM %2B0100 References: <19990804115723.B89379@dub.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908041402510.26385-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> <19990804202619.A71192@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 08:26:19PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 02:05:37PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > Might I add that the site would get another 160+ potential authors/editors > > by bringing it into the tree. > > I don't want to rain on anyone's parade here yet, but there are a couple > of issues to be resolved before it's bought in to the tree: > > 1. Multi-language support. I don't doubt our various translation teams > would be interested in translating the content to different languages. > Do the tools that the advocacy site use (backend database, et al) > and their current configuration (table schema, and so on) support this? > > That's without the slightly thorny problem of supporting multiple > character sets. > > If not, this should be fixed first. > > 2. How are we going to mirror it? The current FreeBSD web site (because > it's mostly static content) is nice and easy to mirror. Something > that's primarily database driven won't be. > > 3. How are we going to do change control on the content that's stored in > the database? > > None of these are insurmountable problems, but they do need addressing. These are exactly the issues that need to be resolved. The idea of a database back end for the content is nice but is it really necessary? If we can for go the DB backend, integration with the existing site would be much easier. I think that solving this one issue would make the others quite a bit more addressable :) -Bill -- -=| Bill Swingle - unfurl@dub.net - unfurl@freebsd.org - bill@cdrom.com -=| "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" Pablo Picasso To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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