[Grok-dev] the grok website: Plone?

Luciano Ramalho luciano at ramalho.org
Thu Sep 20 09:08:09 EDT 2007


On 9/20/07, Sebastian Ware <sebastian at urbantalk.se> wrote:
> This is unfortunately what has made zope.org close to useless. These
> personal documents aren't moderated or maintained så the amount of
> outdated and sometimes inaccurate documentation (not to mention dead
> links...) is very high.

The problem with Zope.org is not the fact that anyone can post, but
that it has no real, day-to-day management. Never had, and I doubt it
ever will have. There is a Brazilian saying that goes something like
"a dog with two owners will starve". Zope.org has two owners: Zope
Corp and the Zope community.

> I would say, only moderated content on the website, except for
> (spambot secured) comments perhaps.
>
> I would rather have a couple of editors who made sure that the site
> maintains quality (that said, anybody should be able to make changes
> that are submitted to the editorial workflow).

If we have editors, it's no problem to manage and monitor user
contributions, and the site will greatly benefit from those. If we
have no editors, the site will not thrive, with or without user
contributions.

> I agree that one should be open to the idea of making it a one stop
> shop, but I believe it should evolve into this, rather than grasp all
> of it up front.

I agree with this as well. I was just brainstorming.

Cheers,

Luciano


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