[Pydotorg] RE: [Pydotorg-redesign] The Zope question

[Barry Warsaw]

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 19:04, Kevin Altis wrote:

> That sums up the issue pretty well, the people and process of today versus
> where we might go in the future. Also, you touched on why change is or isn't
> needed and the timeframe. python.org is being maintained today in what I
> would describe as, not surprisingly, a way that only appeals to sys admin
> and programmer types and the process doesn't scale well. I understand why
> the current process is what it is, but as part of the redesign process we
> said we were going to improve the day to day maintainence and reduce the
> workload of the people involved.

I'll just point out that for some of us <wink>, the current set up is a
HUGE improvement in the workload over what we used to have.  Also, the
current setup needs very little babysitting.  Except for twiddling a
directory permission here and there, and installing an Apache rewrite
now and again, the system is more or less self-powered.  I applaud and
worship the pydotorg and webmaster team for doing such a great job on
the content.

Any CMS is going to require more care and feeding and certainly a lot of
effort to get installed and running (witness new.zope.org).  I'm not
advocating against it, but we need to be realistic about how much effort
we can collectively put into this, given that we're all squeezing in
volunteer time.

raise-a-million-bucks-a-year-and-count-me-in-ly y'rs,
-Barry