Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

[Chris Lyttle]

Just to add to this, there are 2 people who have access to change the
gnucash website, Linas and myself. My access is somewhat limited (only
to the parts that Linas has specifically added me to) but I can change
what I need to. I tend not to make any major changes without consulting
Linas as it is his machine and site after all. There has been discussion
of changes to the website before and Linas was always amenable to
letting people change things _if_ they are not just gonna do something
half-assed and then just disappear. As I too have seen this happen
before I agree with it. Personally I'd rather the site was stale because
it was left in one person's hands than hacked and bastardized by too
many people having access and no control.
As to Drupal, I've had some experience with it, I was attempting to use
it to setup a CMS/Website for my previous job to replace postnuke.
Fairly easy to get setup and running, the problem comes in trying to
graft a consistent theme to a site. I was never able to easily develop a
theme without some hacking that was beyond my basic html abilities.
There are a lot of plugins and addons to Drupal and I did like what it
provided. It would take a fair bit of work to figure out if it would be
suitable for replacing the current site, and even then I'd want to see
that whoever is doing that work is committed enough to see it to
completion and leave enough knowledge behind them that others could
replicate what they did without to much effort (like documentation).


On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 20:11 +0100, Adrian Simmons wrote:
> Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Trac also has a patch tracker, so we could use that, too.
> Trac certainly looks promising, I've looked at it before, but it seemed too much 
> for my one-man-webdev setup.
> 
> > and even our own WWW server (even if access
> > is somewhat restricted).
> And it's restricted because?
> Hosted in someone else's web space?
> 
> Quoting Neil Williams <linux at codehelp.co.uk>
> >> I've thought about something like Drupal to do the job - it's all a
> >> question of whether anyone else will get access.
> Indeed, leaving the site in one persons hands is always going to be a recipe for 
> bit-rot, no matter how dedicated they are life will always get in the way 
> eventually. Certainly we can't help without access.
> 
> >> I saw Drupal at
> >> Linuxworld Expo and I like it much more than any other CMS (and I've
> >> tried the majority!)
> This is a widely held view :)
> It's not perfect by a long way, but the core is well engineered and gets better 
> all the time. It's certainly got all that the Gnucash site needs.
> 
> One of the plus sides of something like Drupal is the access permissions. It's a 
> relatively trivial task to set up a restricted set of users as editors - they 
> don't even need to know html to edit content.
> 
> > I can ask.  I know he's been really really busy..  He might be
> > amenable to some CVS/SVN push into the web server..  I don't know.
> Something like
> http://www.goshaky.com/goshaky-distfiles/svn2rss/
> might be useful once SVN is in use - and rss feed of svn commits.
> 
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