Danie Roux wrote:
Dear Webteam,
Has anyone here investigated/estimated the effort it would take to move to Pier?
I would like to do that investigation and put together some sort of action plan.
If I read the situation correctly, the biggest push for a technology upgrade is twofold:
- Persistence right now is not ideal.
- We need an implementation of a CAPTCHA to stop spammers from
spamming via "Contact Us".
Mostly right.
Some other points are Smallwiki mangles/inlines non ascii chars on saving/editing so if I put a é in a text, it will be lost if I edit the text again.
Pictures are hard to use as a link. I had to do some hoop jumping to make that work.
There is a Captcha for Smallwiki2 on SqueakSource which probably could be made to work for either Smallwiki or Pier.
I'm not sure about persistence options.
What did I miss? Some people suggested the look and feel should also be considered during such an upgrade, but I don't think that is a major driver.
If the Pier upgrade can be done successfully and smoothly, I would want to do an integration to http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html to stop the spammers.
Next steps then:
- Has anyone looked at a Pier upgrade?
Not that I know of. We have done some work to make a squeakfoundation site in Pier but found that it could just be a subpart of the Squeak site.
- Shall I just grab the current image, start playing with it test the
viability of an upgrade?
That sounds like a viable way ahead.
Karl
-- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix - http://danieroux.com _______________________________________________ Webteam mailing list Webteam@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/webteam