Re: Suggestion for new website - GNUstepWeb

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,


Gregory Casamento wrote:
> Do you think we should have part of the website use WebObjects/GSWeb 
> as a sort of demo of GNUstep itself?

as cool as it may sound and as nice it is to "eat your own dogfood" is, 
two reasons come up to my mind of why not

1) simplicity of maintaining a static website [*]: it is just easy to 
develop it locally, test it... no need for a webserver. This is how I 
maintain(ed) the GS website until its current fate. Very convenient and 
always available "on the go" where I had a CVS checkout
2) independency on the infrastructure. Stati webpages can be hosted 
anywhere, we could also just use a standard hosting service and it would 
fit.

So I would keep "www.gnustep.org" static, but we could have a subdomain 
dedicated to it. Like wiki.gnustep.org runs on wiki software, we could 
have a part running on GSWeb.

Some candidates come to my mind:

1)  dynamic feature comparison, dynamic documentation or things like 
that (e.g. the thing Hugo was thinking)
2) rewriting software index into GSWeb

similar things like that, which could be in subdomains on other servers 
and if they go down, they wouldn't affect the "main" static website, 
which would be www and ftp.

Just my two cents.

Riccardo

[*] actually there is one PHP page for mirror selection. Maybe we could 
just make it explicit and static too.