[Zope-dev] Re: Let's fix the damned website

[Martin Aspeli]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>> Yeah, I know this is really a "me too" post, but I think we should err 
>> on the side of conventional for our website. We can't go from 
>> out-of-date boring to cutting edge hip in one giant leap; it won't be 
>> believable. Let's stick with what people know from other sites, and 
>> emphasize our serious rock-solid powerful flexibility experience thing. 
> 
> + sys.maxint
> 
>> A few frills here and there are permitted, of course.
> 
> Actually, no frills please. They just come back to bite us every damned 
> time. It looks like we're gonna get lumbered with Plone again but can we 
> please please please make sure it's stable, conservative, maintainable 
> release rather than some bleeding edge thing that becomes a total 
> maintenance dead end?

Yes. That's the point. It's vanilla Plone (well, one custom content type 
for the "feature" that fronts each section, but it's trivial) with a 
simple skin, not the FrankePlone that runs the old site. As a case in 
point, Wichert upgraded it from 3.0 to 3.1rc in about ten minutes.

Martin

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