How to migrate qt project part to qtwin and who can do what

Steven Boothe steven at poiema.org
Mon Mar 28 12:14:55 CEST 2005


Dave Brondsema wrote:
> Ralf Habacker wrote:
> 
>> On Sunday 27 March 2005 11:42, Steven Boothe wrote:
>> 
>>> Ralf Habacker wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I've tried to write down the required things for the migration. In
>>>> some parts good ideas are required.
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Website migration
>>>> 
>>>> a. take over recent website code and content of the qt-3 dir. The 
>>>> qt3-win32 part is located in a mysql database displayed by a small
>>>> self written cms, (support only single pages, the rest is php code)
>>>> for which I cannot give extended support.
>>>> 
>>>> b. install a public known website cms and import the content from
>>>> the qt3-win32 part or
>>>> 
>>>> c. use a plain file website
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I think I would be more in favor of going with plan b. In my case,
>>> I've been looking into implementing Wordpress (wordpress.org) for
>>> myself and another non-profit organization. However, what about going
>>> with a wiki? I like these because that way anyone who comes along and
>>> discovers they have both an interest and the time can easilly and
>>> quickly contribute to the project without having to go to the trouble
>>> of figuring out who they should contact, etc.
>> 
>> 
>> Me too, do you know a good wiki, which could be installed on sourceforge
>> net and is easy to configure related to style and layout ?
>> 
> 
> MoinMoinWiki seems to me to be the best one currently available.  It runs
> on python, which SF does not provide.  We would have to use a PHP-based
> wiki.  I have used PhpWiki and it seems to be pretty good.  I am a big fan
> of wikis, but lately spambots have been adding links to open wikis to
> increase google rankings.  Without advanced automatic spam-prevention like
> MoinMoin, I'm afraid it would be more trouble than it is worth.  Spambots
> are even programmed to create new accounts if the wiki is not writable
> anonymously.

I looked into other CMS's/Wiki's today and also came up with phpwcms which 
was currently the highest rated and looked to also be well suited for our 
needs. Which incidently, you can demo the administration of a whole bunch of 
these at:

opensourceCMS.com
"This site was created with one goal in mind. To give you the opportunity to 
"try out" some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software 
systems in the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any site 
here, allowing you to decide which system best suits your needs."
http://www.opensourcecms.com/

Which is what led me to:

phpwcms :: web based content management system | What is phpwcms
"phpwcms is an Open Source web content management system. It is optimized for 
fast and easy setup and works on any standard webserver platform that 
supports PHP/MySQL and was tested successfully on Windows 2000/XP, MacOSX and 
LINUX. phpwcms is perfect for professional, public and private users. It is 
very easy to learn and gives you the flexibility to separate layout and 
content. Lots of powerful but simple implemented features assists publishers 
and web developers too."
http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php

I am currently setting up xampp to do some testing, but one thing that I 
think we may consider in view of the problems with spam is a semi moderated 
wiki where we may require a moderator to approve new accounts... Just a 
thought. I mean it's one way in which some other folks and I have decided to 
cut spam from our mailing lists. It's worked OK so far...


>>>> Question: What about the style of the website, should we take it
>>>> from kde-cygwin or should it be another style ?
>>> 
>>> I personally like the style of the current site, however it does 
>>> appear to reflect a KDE theme (appropriately), where as I wonder if a
>>> website dedicated to QT might also reflect a theme influenced by the
>>> Trolltech colors/styles then? After all without them where would we
>>> be? I think it would be nice if we could somehow reflect some
>>> gratitude or credit via the design if that was possible...
>> 
>> At least the qt icon and the green color ?

Yes. It wouldn't have to be a completely new theme, just adjusted a little. I 
like that idea. Something nice enough to pass so that we can move on to 
bigger and better things. :)

>> 
>>>> 2. Mailing list 1. setup a qtwin mailing list 2. setup a qtwin-cvs
>>>> mailing list for cvs commit messages
>>> 
>>> <snip>
>> 
>> I don't know if this list could be renamed. If not this list could  be 
>> hided and a new one should be created. This could also be done by Dave,
>> the recent admin, if he like. Additional the users of the recent
>> kde-cygwin lisst should be added to this newborn list and an initial
>> mail should be send to the members how to unsubcribe if they don't like
>> this subcription.
> 
> I hid qtwin-devel.  New lists must be of the form "projectname-listname",
> so I created qtwin-general.
> 
> I will let a new admin do the work of migrating this list to that one when
> we want to.

Nice. Thanks!


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