[webdev] Re: Next steps

[Tom Hull <thull2@xxxxxxx>]

James Violette wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What are the next steps in the aclug webdev group?
> 
> James

I've been swamped with other work, so haven't been able to
do much. The main thing I was looking at was content sections.
It looks like content sections is just a database concept for
managing access and permissions on sets of static web pages.
I.e., we can lay out the web pages, then put them into
content sections for management purposes. I think the big
thing to do there is to come up with a plan for organizing
content, and secondly define a set of roles for updating the
website. Probably the best way to do that would be to get
a meeting together and do some brainstorming.

One bug I found (haven't put into bugzilla but should) is
that the procedure that rounds up all of the static pages
doesn't follow symlinks, which is a problem given the way
the website files have been broken into openacs/aclug chunks
and stitched together using a symlink. I'm not sure whether
to just fix the tcl code, or rethink the way the website is
put together.

I haven't done any work on setting up the playpen. I think
that's the only action item from last meeting that hasn't
been done (although I'm not sure where we stand on backups;
the postgresql db is being dumped, bug we also need cvs and
bugzilla and probably /usr/local/aolserver and some other
odds and ends; also log rotation is a potential problem
with aolserver). A couple of other things that haven't been
tackled on the server are getting pltcl to work (createlang
fails with link errors) and setting up ssl.

The main page needs a bugzilla link in the developers
section, and the events notices connected. We need a
privacy statement, a copyright statement, a mail list
page. Some modules are probably easy to set up and
useful -- class ad is one that comes to mind.

We need a link from the old website to the new one. (I've
written John Goerzen about this, and suggested some wording
if he'd be kind enough to do it.) We need the activities and
presentations people to start using the events system.

I'd like to see a spec for the RSS news feed thing -- this
was on Dale's request list and is something he's been looking
into. I'm more interested in how it would be used than just
how to do it.

I'm not much worried about search until we get some more
content to search. Which gets us back to the content plan.

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