Re: [Sheflug] Content management with Plone

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 21:16 +0000, Bob Holland wrote:
> I think we could just about make Mambo work in this - but there seem to be 2 
> main problems...
> 
> 1) [uploading images]
> 2) [assigning urls]
>
> You are correct I think - most solutions get pretty close but seem to 
> have an Achilles heel.

If you think Mambo is 99% there, then maybe the solution is to get a
friendly Mambo hacker to play on the code. I've hacked it myself before,
it's not terribly complex. Both problems could probably be solved
relatively easily.

> We failed miserably this afternoon getting Zope up. It runs but we have 
> failed to log in to it yet. This is a work in progress!

Oh dear ;) For some reason, though, that doesn't totally surprise me.

I last installed Zope from Debian testing - if you can, give that a go:
it set it up (for me) to a working configuration, so you could at least
get to that point ;)

> The issue is not server performance particularly, it is more to do 
> with the usability of the site when there are (say) several hundred different 
> sections (or 'minisites') which need to be organised in some way. Mambo 
> appears nice and tidy, has some useful plug-ins for a community site, but to 
> me it looks like it needs another layer between its sections, categories and 
> content elements.

Right, management scalability. I would guess Mambo hasn't been designed
to be so "horizontal" (i.e., scaling out to many hundreds of users). 

I would be interested to know how you get on with this project though;
it definitely sounds interesting.

Cheers,

Alex.

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