[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #11833: Our Drupal instance is showing its age, we need a replacement.

  • From: "jprostko" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:00:04 -0000

#11833: Our Drupal instance is showing its age, we need a replacement.
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   Reporter:  zooey      |      Owner:  haiku-sysadmin
       Type:  task       |     Status:  new
   Priority:  normal     |  Milestone:
  Component:  Sys-Admin  |    Version:
 Resolution:             |   Keywords:
 Blocked By:             |   Blocking:
Has a Patch:  0          |   Platform:  All
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Comment (by jprostko):

 Replying to [comment:11 richienyhus]:
 > Replying to [comment:10 jprostko]:

 > > I don't think it would help us at all, as it is aimed for a specific
 purpose that doesn't really align with what the Haiku website is trying to
 accomplish.  I'm not saying it couldn't have other uses for us, but for
 the main site I don't think it makes much sense.
 >
 > Good to know, I thought it might of had more front end features than
 just the intranet features. I take it Drupal Commons and OpenLucius is
 long those lines as well?

 From what I can tell, yes.

 > So would something like [https://www.drupal.org/project/cms Drupal
 Powerstart] as a frontend be a better solution?

 I suppose so, although this won't help us if we plan on going to Drupal 8.
 It could maybe be used if we jumped to Drupal 7 though.  Quite honestly, I
 think it's best to start with a vanilla version of Drupal and then only
 add in what is needed module-wise.  A lot of these distributions include
 the kitchen sink, and then it is hard to tell what you do or do not need
 to having the site running optimally.  Basic distributions that just add
 Views/CCK/Chaos Tools/Panels (again, assuming Drupal 7) would probably be
 as exotic as we'd like to go (although I'm not sure what all modules we
 rely on for the current site).  I am always open to using things like
 Drupal Powerstart on brand new sites, but when trying to migrate an
 existing site, I like to take advantage of the situation and try to come
 up with the most minimal installation that I can just to keep the bloat to
 a minimum.

 > On a side note, I found the unrelated [http://www.brightspot.com/
 Brightspot CMS]. It looks nice, but I have not researched yet if it is any
 good.

 Yeah, I don't know anything about it either.  It seems it runs on Java,
 which I admit I have no experience with when it comes to powering a CMS.
 I'm kind of partial to sticking with PHP, but that may just be me.  :)

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