Hi, > Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Dezember 2019 um 04:37 Uhr > Von: "Michael T. Pope" <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [Freecol-developers] Website fixes > > IIRC we used to have a Drupal setup. Eventually it was exploited > (yay PHP:-P). Due to no one being interested in fixing it or committing to > long term maintenance of a CMS, I argued that a simple static site made > most sense given our resources. Caleb did good work on the content, > including ripping out a lot of CMS-isms. My involvement has never been > more than trying to work out how to add the release information to the > CMS, and subsequently to doing uploads. So I am pretty pleased that you > guys are able to put in some effort improving the website. It is long > neglected.
Yes, I always found it the right decision to stop using a CMS, especially when nobody can commit to updating it regularly. I only have about a month before starting in my new job, not sure how much time I have then. That's why my main concern is to get the website into a fixed, sustainable state without need of much maintenance soon. For that, I'd just like to have it in a way to not need every news 3 times and having links updated automatically. Maybe the way to get that could be static page generation for news articles before uploading? We would not need anything fancy, if it could just find a few magic tags in slightly modified current pages and add articles from text files and generate links to the articles, it would be sufficient. > I will see if I can do a blanket upload from sf git shortly. I think the > upload script is "clever" and tries to upload what has changed. It may > well be being too clever. Thank you, that'd be nice. Please, also look if there is other garbage on server, for example, bugtracker directory. @Jonathan: Thank you, for the offer. I think, that would be on Mike to decide, as I can not commit to long term maintenance of the website. IIRC, one problem with this was the goal to keep all parts of the project on a single provider (like SF or GitHub). Greetings wintertime _______________________________________________ Freecol-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freecol-developers
