Drupal Switch?

[Landy DeField]

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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