Re: Replacing Squishdot

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Christian Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org> writes:

> Hi hackers,
> I was just wondering if there are someone who has great objections to
> replacing squishdot in Gnotices? There are people on the gnome-web-devel
> list with the skills and opportunity to do so, so unless someone screems
> no then I take that as a go-ahead.
> 
> The reasons to replace squishdot are:
> a) not maintained -> Squishdot is no longer maintained as it is being
> replaced by a new system.
> 
> b) moderation doesn't work
> 
> c) user account setup not available
> 
> d) noone interested in fixing squishdot among the people active on GNOME
> 
> e) lacks the ability to time annoucements (meaning approving a new story
> to get onto the site at a given time/ date)
> 
> f) probably many more.

Questions is, how many of these would a replacement system fix?
a) and d) can quickly stop being an advantage if someone looses interest. 

I'm not saying replacing squishdot is wrong, just that we can't forget
that squishdot does have the big advantage of basically working currently.

Also, how would old article migration work?

Regards,
                                        Owen