Fwd: Drupal Switch?

Ian Monroe ian at monroe.nu
Tue Feb 27 09:24:55 CET 2007


This is mostly off-topic for this list, but I'd thought I'd cross-post
for those interested.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu>
Date: Feb 27, 2007 2:22 AM
Subject: Drupal Switch?
To: amarok-promo at kde.org


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.

Thanks,
Ian Monroe


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