Re: Replacing Squishdot

[Christian Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>]

On 25 Aug 2001 10:25:46 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> 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 Squishdot is no longer maintained as it is being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. 
Well, worst case scenario is having a better system than today which noone 
maintains. a) and d) is guaranteed today, and just a possibility with a new system.
> 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.
Yes, and my idea is having the current squishdot available to be quickly 
re-instated if the new setup doesn't work.
 
> Also, how would old article migration work?
Don't know yet, but if we don't manage to migrate the current stories would converting
them to static html and storing them as an archive be an option? There
are work underway to implement searching for gnome.org so that should at
least make that info there easily available for future visitors.

Christian