Hi all,<div><br></div><div>First off I haven't really had time to examine the work done so far, but I'll try to make some time in the near future :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 21:52, Tyler Mitchell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tmitchell@osgeo.org">tmitchell@osgeo.org</a>></span> wrote:</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Challenges:<br>
1. Moving FDO and MGOS sites as well<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not that much of a challenge as AFAIR they are not using anything special. It's just content hosting.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
2. Deciding on v6 or v7 site<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would recommend to go to D7 directly if at all possible since we will anyway need to eventually upgrade to 7. This would save us from one more upgrade, but see below.</div>
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3. Some modules between v5 and v6 and v7 aren't available<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. These need to be mapped and a suitable replacement needs to be found... This is probably one of the most time-consuming tasks since it involves investigating what is out there and how they work and how to convert content. I recommend that we do this as a team-effort. We have the list of D5 modules installed on the Wiki somewhere (2 am, not time to look at the moment). So each volunteer would then pick a D5 module and look for possible upgrade paths for it. It won't take that long time per module, but there are very many of them....</div>
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4. Can't get LDAP module in v6 or v7 working<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We have 2 options:</div><div>1) Invest time to fix one of the existing LDAP solutions to work for us (and contrib the code back)</div><div>
2) Look for an alternative solution. Once could be to use some other authentication mechanism which would be better at talking to our LDAP server. <a href="http://www.openid-ldap.org/">http://www.openid-ldap.org/</a> is one such example. Drupal talks OpenID quite well for instance.</div>
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5. Can't get SSL running properly for secure logins<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Here is what I found by googling a bit on the subject. In summary I can say that it seems to be possible for D7 and D6 for sure. There is module but it seems to be a bit buggy for D7 as explained here:</div>
<div><a href="http://drupal.org/project/securepages">http://drupal.org/project/securepages</a></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
6. New theme requires some new content to be created, as outlined at<br>
<a href="http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/website/sitemap/sitemap.svg" target="_blank">http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/website/sitemap/sitemap.svg</a> (green links are<br>
existing content, black are new ones that are needed)<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Okay, these WILL require time. Would it be possible to make some sort of more maintainable list, so that we can check off the pages when they are done, or then have a content-sprint and create all page stubbs and as many full conteent pages as possible?</div>
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More issues have popped up but these are the main ones. I have limited time available<br>
to help with this so am just putting it on your radar as an area where someone else needs to<br>
"own" the website as a project or a broader community review of the website needs (along<br>
with new solutions/ideas) may be in order.<br>
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If you are interest/available to take this over, I suggest to introduce yourself and your interest<br>
on the webcom or SAC lists. I'm available for questions but have limited time to do much<br>
technical work at this point.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I can at least serve as an adviser or mentor, but I also have quite limited time, but I'll see if I can arrange some time.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps,</div><div>Wolf Bergenheim</div>
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