Long Term / KDE.org Design Update

[Andrej Mernik]

Dne 13. 07. 2015 ob 15:27 je Ken Vermette zapisal(a):
> Wagh! Sorry I haven't been more active here; my day job has had me on 
> heavy web development for the past few months - you can imagine 
> programming PHP for more than 8 hours a day can send some people 
> screaming to non-web projects, especially when it's not a quick 
> project like the KDE websites. ;)
>
> In all honesty my progress was starry-eyed and a bit crap, I haven't 
> been satisfied with my work at all, and for some reason I thought 
> writing (another) custom CMS was a good idea; I came back to what I 
> had yesterday and set the project folders on fire. Aside from some 
> pretty designs and inconsequential HTML, I'm going to reset my 
> progress meter, because I doubt the whole "lone wolf" thing will get 
> very far on a long-term project like this - especially since my 
> screwups would be your burden - and that thought stressed me out.
>
> I think the most important thing isn't the design aspect, but having a 
> solid foundational CMS which is modern, will be updated, and will 
> allow for easier management. I'd like to maybe just start with your 
> feedback as the maintainers; right now KDE.org has several systems its 
> running under, including Capacity as a sort of "glue" CMS... I'd like 
> to poll you guys on the possibility of picking and sticking with one 
> CMS, even if it means programming a multitude of modules, which I'm 
> willing to do. I also think it's important that you guys choose what 
> you want to maintain, because what's easy to design for isn't 
> necessarily what's easy to maintain.
>
> I'm also thinking "not custom" since keeping things up-to-date is a 
> tough issue, but with something like Drupal or Wordpress at least we 
> know it will have active maintainers dedicated to the main codebase. 
> If we can just maintain modules in a skinnable multi-language system 
> that will be half the battle won forever and ever. Hopefully, for 
> user-facing pages we'll get our core codebase down to CMS X and PhpBB.
>
> Anyway!
>
> I think the first thing I'd like to hear from you guys before I 
> re-kick my efforts is; do you agree with my logic, and what CMS would 
> you prefer to maintain if you do?
>
Hello,

my vote goes for Wordpress since it's the CMS I have worked most on and 
it's easy to customize and extend. It's actively developed and it 
already has a lot of plugins.

Cheers,
Andrej