[GRASS-dev] cvs>svn?

Hamish hamish_b at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 15 19:55:50 EST 2008


> > > Martin Landa wrote:
> > > > BTW it would be great to start migration webpages to Drupal.

Hamish:
> > 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?

(Accountability and peer review is needed as the webpage is the
"official voice" of the GRASS project)

Dylan:
> I think that it is possible to have revisioned edits with Drupal,
> possibly after enabling some module.
...
> Here is an example of a user-powered Drupal site. There are a couple
> of add-ons present for pretty-printing code snippets, etc. I would be
> happy to comment on any other Drupal related questions.

link?  ( http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu ) ?
 
....
> I felt this way too. Although, now I am starting to like the ability
> to easily define a pile of terms which can be used to index / 
> cross-reference / sort pages on a Drupal site. This allow rapid
> navigation by concept rather than static navigation approaches
> commonly used on web pages.

I guess the ideal is a good intuitive hierarchical structure with good
index/search/sort tools too- they aren't mutually exclusive. The
ability to limit the search to just the website or just a particular
mailing list would be nice (htDig?)


> It would be good to experiment a bit with the new Drupal site, and if
> it is not suitable we can always switch to something else.

agreed.



Hamish



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