[Gimp-web] GIMP Brainstorm

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 19:56 -0200, Guillermo Espertino wrote:

> I think the best would be a content management system like Joomla or
> Drupal. Once the setup and the content sections and categories are set,
> the contributors would have a very simple way to manage contents,
> without having to learn about svn or other things. Just create/edit the
> contents.
> I'm aware that migrating the current contents to a new system would be a
> hell of a work and would need a lot of volunteers, though.

We would also need a new web-server first. The current setup has the
advantage that the content is completely static. The GIMP web-server can
serve these static pages even under high load (think GIMP on slashdot).
A dynamic system would put much higher requirements on our hardware. But
then new hardware is long overdue.

I would like to say though that the learning curve of setting up and
maintaining, or even only using a content management system is
definitely higher than using the simple setup that is currently being
used for www.gimp.org. It really only takes 10 minutes to learn enough
about SVN to deal with the website. And the rest is just simple HTML.


Sven