Re: Site, apps and CMS (Was: Re: StepTalk blog)

[Gregory John Casamento]

MJ,

--- MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:

> Gregory John Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com> wrote: [...]
> > > Why have you rudely moved this to the discuss-gnustep list?
> > Rudely??  Was it ever on any other list?  If you know of a better list,
> please
> > suggest one before you go off accusing people of deliberately being rude.
> 
> It was off-list correspondence posted out-of-context to the list.
> Along with the accusations of not having read things when they
> haven't actually been posted, I think that's rude. Don't you?

I agree that it is rude to suddenly bring an offlist conversation on-list and
to make such accusations.

> Sheesh, tell CMS fans that you like editing text in a text editor
> instead of a web browser and watch them go off the deep.
> 
> Focus on the real questions yourself. This whole "CMS or not,
> my CMS is better than yours" debate is totally besides the point.

I'm neither for or against it.   I personally, like the idea that I can edit
things in a text editor from the command line and commit the changes via CVS,
but I am not against the idea of exploring the possibilities which a CMS might
offer.

> Questions of "who will maintain this" have been totally ignored,
> as far as I've noticed. No-one steps up to the plate like Scott
> and co. did to make the last site. Do we want another GSApps?
> That site could be so great, but it's unmaintained. We can't
> even update the template to look like the main site, AFAICT.

These are all questions which must be solved through a debate within the
community.
 
> Regards,
> -- 
> MJ Ray (slef), K. Lynn, England, email see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/

Later, GJC

Gregory John Casamento 
-- CEO/President Open Logic Corp. (A MD Corp.)
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