Drupal Switch?

[Enric Caussa (Enricus)]

I agree! Thanks for making the website better!

2007/3/1, Landy DeField <landy at revelinux.com>:
>
> Brilliant! I think that drupal is the better choice for community based
> websites. I think what you have accomplished so far is great. :)
>
> On 2/27/07, Seb Ruiz <me at sebruiz.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 27/02/07, Ian Monroe < ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
> > > We've been on Mambo for longer then I've been in the project, so thats
> > > like more then 2 years. Its shows its age. Even given the simple task
> > > of serving up static pages, its slow and has heavy mysql usage.
> > >
> > > I've started working on a Drupal site. Its at:
> > > http://amarok.kde.org/d
> > >
> > > Advantages of Drupal:
> > > *It should be faster. It has pretty advanced caching stuff. The
> > > downside is that its caching is pretty advanced, as opposed to other
> > > CMS like Radiant which actually just update some static pages every 5
> > > minutes as needed.
> > > *i18n support. Drupal has it, I don't know how good it is. The
> > > possibility of having translations for all news items and major pages
> > > in an integrated system is also quite seductive.
> > > *Standard theming engines. xtemplate, phptemplate. Hopefully we could
> > > attract someone to make a theme better this way.
> > > *...on that note, Drupal 5's default theme is actually decent looking.
> > > *Drupal has been around a while, is well maintained and active. Drupal
> > > 5 just came out recently which is what I installed. There are dozens
> > > and dozens of modules available. Writing custom modules is also quite
> > > easy.
> > > *Seb, Harald and I are all previously familiar with Drupal I believe.
> > >
> > > Several WIP:
> > > *A few of the links go to the current Mambo site - obviously thats a
> > > no-no. :) The big thing is Gallery, which has to be updated to Gallery
> >
> > > 2 and then it can be integrated into Drupal.
> > > *Outside of the Wiki link itself, I'm thinking we should move all
> > > those pages from the wiki (Download, Themes etc) to the drupal site.
> > > This will keep the theme and such consistent to casual browsers.
> > > Rokymotioners can all create accounts at:
> > > http://amarok.kde.org/d/user
> > > And then bug me to have their account set to Editor. In this way the
> > > same people (you all) editing those wiki pages can edit the drupal
> > > site pages.
> > > *There is a module to integrate with SMF (our forum). I don't think
> > > there's much point in having users logged into our Drupal site though
> > > and it would just screw up the cache system.
> > > *We could replace S9Y blogs with Drupal as well.
> > >
> > > Another WIP if we care:
> > > To import the news items from Mambo I actually just ran some SQL
> > > queries, its not a proper script. So images didn't transfer over
> > > automatically. I only transfered over all the news for the sake of
> > > history. Obviously the release images are a part of that history...
> > > but maybe something archive.org has hopefully taken care of.
> > >
> > > This is obviously going to take a bit of work, but I think it will all
> > > pay off in the end.
> >
> >
> > Looks fantastic so far, and i'd be around to help you with it!
> > go drupal, go!
> >
> > Seb
> >
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