Gnucash web site, Was: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

[Chris Lyttle]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 14:35 +0100, Adrian Simmons wrote:
> Chris Lyttle wrote:
> > too many people having access and no control.
> That's part of the point of a CMS like Drupal. You still only need one person to 
> install and maintain the actual CMS, but you can set up members of the site with 
> varying levels of access. Admin, Senior editor, content editor etc, limit people 
> to editing things they've written or allow them access to certain types of 
> content, it gets quite granular.
> 
Yes, I'm aware of this and agree its a plus in Drupal's favor. My
comment was more to do with background to the reasons why its only 2
people who have access atm.

> > 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.
> How long ago was this? The phptemplate theme system was added to Drupal core for 
> the current version (4.6), it got a lot easier with that.
> 
> I have 3 customer sites on Drupal (all with different themes), plus a theme 
> (with one included theme variant) and a module on Drupal.org. So no worries there :)
> 
I was working with 4.5.1. If you're willing to create a similar theme
that'd be cool :)

> > I'd want to see
> > that whoever is doing that work is committed enough to see it to
> > completion
> Well, I'd suggest that one way forward would be to leave the current site well 
> alone and just build a new one for G2. Incorporate and update old content etc. 
> With Drupal it's perfectly possible to make the site members only, and restrict 
> membership until the site is ready to launch. Then switch at a later point.
> 
> Looking a little deeper at gnucash.org:
> The left hand menu's already look like Drupal blocks.
> Most pages could simply be recreated as Drupal 'page' nodes.
> The news would be Drupal 'story' type nodes.
> Mailing lists, bug reports etc could simply link out like they do now.
> 
> Documentation is where things get tricky. I think the site would benefit from 
> the docs being integrated into the site (could be a Drupal collaborative book) 
> but it seems they're currently split between wiki, online versions of Gnucash's 
> integrated help, and presumably other places out on the net.
> 
> 
> But this is all academic unless Linas is willing to let Drupal run on his server 
> or the project is willing to start paying for hosting elsewhere...
> 
> I'd be happy to set up a demo in my own web space if people want to take a 
> closer look. Also if people want to stick with the current site and just 
> delegate updating something to me, I'm fine with that. :) But I do need some 
> direction :)
> 
This is the crux, Linas is pretty busy so it may be pretty much a no go
unless he's willing to redirect www.gnucash.org at some stage after the
new site was working.

Chris

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