[glug-t] Re: build a cms

Hi,
My comments inline.
On Nov 14, 2007 11:12 AM, Sahil Ahuja <sahilahuja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>    - Its user/group/permission thing is working now and is more
>    sophisticated than any other available cms.
Sophisticated? I am really not sure about this. Does it have organic groups[1]?
>    The reason being we are making
>    this cms for NITT website too. Now imaging the levels of permissions
>    required : Director, HOD, lectures... Everyone needs to control a subtree.
>    And HOD needs to be able to add remove permissions from his dept. faculty
>    and also should not be able to take away rights from director. - The cms
>    takes care of all this.
This type of ACL is available in all Standard CMS's(even in wiki's).
>    - Only article module is made. (hence lots for you to work on, if you
>    are going to make a new one anyway)
I didn't get this idea. Do you mean, we have to work more on the cms's
code itself? ;-)
>    - For a demo go to http://pragyan.org. Take username password from me
>    in person.
Pragyan site looks nice.
> We are anyway thinking of putting it up on sourceforge.
Awesome!
> The reason we chose to make a new cms was because there was no cms available
> which fulfilled our requirements. And comparing with the amount of work
> required to customize every module to the level we needed, it was much
> easier to make a new cms.
I disagree. There are plenty of CMS'es available, each one designed in
the most generic way. Open Source CMS's are done by lot of people
around the world, and it is trustworthy and reliable, as it is being
used everywhere. Amount of work to customize a CMS may not be more
than writing a new one(though writing a new one gives you a learning
curve).
If you really don't want to pick and customize an existing CMS, try
using some framework, like RoR,TurboGears,CakePHP or django, which
saves a lot of time.

You could do a lot of better things than writing a CMS from scratch.

-Allagappan


[1] http://drupal.org/project/og_content_type_admin
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