Re: [E-devel] website maintainers needed

[Blake Barnett <shadoi@nanovoid.com>]

On Sep 11, 2006, at 4:25 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
<snip>
> one issues i see in merging them - 2 use xsm (fine) 1. uses drupal  
> (php cms).
> edevelop's forums just can't function without dynamic www - xsm  
> itself can't
> really scale there. so do we rewrite forum code in php to serve  
> from xsm? do we
> have a split-personality site (not very attractive maintenance and  
> design-wise).
>
> how do we merge the efforts into "1 cms" (take that loosely) - or  
> is it ever
> possible?

The forums on edevelop.org are a combination of Drupal and phpBB (the  
old forums were originally just phpBB).  I hacked Drupal to make it  
feel similar because everyone moaned so much about the original  
Drupal style and design.  phpBB is a security nightmare (or it was  
when I switched away from it).

I really hope the decision is not to create some frankenstein  
monstrosity by gluing together pieces of Drupal/XSM/Wiki and random  
bits of PHP.  Just the thought of it gives me a headache.

-Blake