[webdev] Re: State of Website

["Jonathan Hall" <flimzy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Lets begin development from scratch with VisualBasic and ASP.

By the time we give up on this, maybe PostNuke will be working :)

Failing that... Why did the group choose to move away from OpenACS?  Was it
defficient, or was PostNuke just "cooler" somehow?

And not to re-open an old can of worms... but why was Zope chosen against?

And are there any other new-on-the-scene packages that would be worth
considering?

-- Jonathan



----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <webdev@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 12:15 PM
Subject: [webdev] State of Website


>
> Greetings!
>
> I thought I should bring everyone up to date on what is happening with our
> website, or more correctly, why little has been done in the last couple
months.
>
> In late July ~ early August, we made the decision to move to the PostNuke
CMS
> system.  As a significant version upgrade was due in late August, I
suggested
> waiting before deploying the new site.  Unfortunately, that release broke
the
> majority of the 3rd party packages, several of which Aclug was planning to
> deploy.
>
> A flame war broke out on the PostNuke development list, which ended in the
> resignation of the project leader, followed by resignations from 90% of
the
> development team.  At this point, the future of PostNuke was in question.
The
> sole remaining founder of the PostNuke project attempted to rally the
remaining
> troops while fighting a battle of words with those who thought he was a
major
> cause of the developer walkout.
>
> Finally, cooler heads prevailed, and PostNuke started a re-organization
process
> which is still ongoing.  The previous broken release was recalled and
> re-released minus the changes that had broken all the 3rd party packages.
A
> couple of bug-fixes have been released, but full development has yet to
restart.
> I'm fairly confident that development will continue, but I'm unsure as to
the
> timetable.
>
> That leaves us with a few choices to make.  Do we hold off making any
changes
> until things settle down, or do we make the move and develop on our own if
> necessary?  If we do the move now, do we stay with the P166 running
RedHat, or
> do we find a faster box and while doing so move to something easier to
secure
> and upgrade, like Debian?
>
> Comments? Questions?
>
> --dwh
>
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> Air Capital Linux User's Group  (ACLUG)
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