[GRASS-dev] cvs>svn?

Wolf Bergenheim wolf+grass at bergenheim.net
Wed Jan 16 02:56:28 EST 2008


On 16.01.2008 01:18, Hamish wrote:

 > Before supporting a move to Drupal I would still like to see prototypes
 > of the GRASS frontpage, download page, and since it's already begun the
 > screenshots page implemented. How will the final product look?
 >

Sounds like a good idea. I'll take care of the galleries.

The thing with Drupal is that we *can* make the pages look *exactly* 
like they do in our current site, if we want to. But otoh it will be a 
bit easier to manage say screenshots as galleries, but I guess this is 
just my opinion.

 > Markus:
 >> http://grass-dev.osgeo.net
 >
 > One thing I think is critical is that the changes are monitored in some
 > sort of SCM with change history including author, date, and commit log
 > message. Does drupal give access to change history?
 >

Yes Drupal has change history, and can even show you what has changed. 
Drupal also has content tracking, and can be set to send an email when 
new pages are created.

 >
 > Personally I prefer the exactitude of the 'vim' + raw html approach,
 > and don't like presenting a blog-like page style for a project
 > homepage. But I look forward to seeing what the Drupal prototype will
 > look like, or 3rd party examples, and hope my worries can be relieved.
 >
Ah, but in Drupal you can still make pages in raw html, or rather xhtml, 
which the template is coded in. In addition to that there is support for 
Wiki-like syntax, bbcode and even wysiwyg editors.

 >
 > Having said that I am all for lowering barriers to entry to allow more
 > helpers to contribute. But raw HTML is not very hard, and Markus's nice
 > CSS setup ensures a consistent and pretty look.
 >

Well that is what Drupal does too.

--Wolf

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