From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Reply-To: josh@agliodbs.com
Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: "Gevik babakhani" <gevik@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: PGDN and CVS
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:15:10 -0700
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Gevik,

> I'm not discouraged in anyway... I have just been looking over and over
> for a CMS that we could use in our project. Time after time I end up
> with commercial products. And even if they are opensource, they need to
> be so much customized that one has to put more time in customizing the
> CMS framework rather than building the actual requirement.

What is it you're trying to implement, exactly, that you don't find 
supported?  Is it the tree structure?

Even if existing CMSes require customization, I think it'd be better to 
work with that project and try to get them involved in the feature.  As 
far as I know, the only CMS you've really tried is Drupal.   

Both Bricolage and Framewerk are intimate with the PostgreSQL community and 
could be counted on to work with you.  I don't think you even looked at 
Bricolage after Marc set it up.

I also don't think you've evaluated "more time to implement" using valid 
criteria.  If you do a custom CMS, you're going to need to impement all of 
the common stuff yourself:
Authentication
User management (including "e-mail me my password, etc.")
Approval/rights structures
Versioning admin
Editors (inc. wyswyg and/or bbcode edit)
RSS
etc.
Did your really add up coding all of the above compared to customizing an 
existing system?

Again, I'm not trying to discourage you, but from my perspective half a CMS 
is worse than none.

--Josh

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--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco