[Grok-dev] Re: maintaining the Grok website

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey,

Martin Aspeli wrote:
[snip]
>> * we explore the use of a CMS. I know Sebastian is building one with 
>> Grok. Darryl has one too. Then we probably have enough people on board 
>> with knowledge of two Zope 2 CMSes: Plone and Silva, so those are 
>> options too. The latter options are attractive as they're more 
>> feature-rich than the Grok-based ones.
> 
> Please don't take this the wrong way, but I think you're mad to want to 
> invent a new CMS in Grok. If a great one existed already, of course 
> that'd be good. Having a project that community was vested in will also 
> help you maintain it and keep it up to date (like plone.org does to 
> Plone, PloneHelpCenter and PloneSoftwareCenter). But this really stinks 
> of NIH.

I think you took me the wrong way entirely. You seem to be forgetting 
that I was lead developer on the Silva *CMS* for years? It's pretty 
amusing you are arguing with me that using a CMS has its advantages. :)

I don't think anyone is mad for wanting to create a new CMS with Grok. 
It's not like the final CMS has been written and nobody can write a new 
one anymore, after all.  I think you actually agree, you just express 
yourself badly. :)

There are already two projects to create a CMS for Grok. We can 
definitely explore using them, right?

[snip Plone advocacy, Plone has features and a community that can help 
us, and so on]

Yes, indeed. As I wrote:

 >> Then we probably have enough people on board
 >> with knowledge of two Zope 2 CMSes: Plone and Silva, so those are
 >> options too. The latter options are attractive as they're more
 >> feature-rich than the Grok-based ones.

I don't think your rather heavy-handed Plone advocacy was really 
appropriate here.

Regards,

Martijn