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

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Martin Aspeli wrote:
> 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out-of-date boring to cutting edge hip in one giant leap; it won't be 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.

More like two minutes - the rest of the time was spent setting up
supervisord for the installation.

Also note that the entire deployment (except for the Data.fs of course)
is available on svn.zope.org.

Wichert.

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Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net>    It is simple to make things.
http://www.wiggy.net/                   It is hard to make things simple.