time to retire f.r.c?

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

I think it's a given at some point that we're retiring f.r.c.  But there's 
still work to be done maintaining it, for now.

What we MUST do:

1. Identify static content that should not change much.  Why?  Because we 
need to translate it into every language on Earth.  The more this content 
changes, the more difficult that will be to achieve realistically.

2. Actually translate it.

These first two items needed to happen a long time ago.  They're happening 
now.  For right now, they're happening on f.r.c.  Long-term, I don't care 
where this content goes, or what form it's maintained in -- so long as 
it's fairly static and easily translatable.

And then:

3. Better design.

4. Figure out where this content will live.

The problem we've been having is that we've been waiting for 4. to be 
resolved before working on 1. and 2.  We're not doing that anymore.

--g

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On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Patrick Barnes wrote:

> seth vidal wrote:
> >> Well, I wanted to bring this back up because of the problems we've had
> >> using the Wiki as the front page, in terms of layout.
> >>
> >> It was definitely the right move to make it the front page.  It keeps it
> >> within the engine of content delivery, which is not a CMS but is
> >> starting smell like one.  The html.py could also be a good idea, same
> >> idea of all-one back-end with more flexibility.
> >>
> >> I'll let Patrick weigh in here, as one person who has been feeling this
> >> pain.
> >>     
> >
> > So are we decided we want html.py as a parser module and then the front
> > page can be whatever?
> >
> > -sv
> >
> >
> >   
> I think that's the idea.  HTML will allow quite a bit more flexibility
> than what we have now.  It would also be nice if we could get the
> sidebar-hiding patch in.  As we prepare to add external news feeds or
> other dynamic information, we may need to add other small plugins to get
> the job done, but hopefully we can avoid using too many other patches.
> 
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