[Webteam] Investigating the effort it will take to get to Pier

[Brad Fuller]

I don't know of anyone who has invested time to determine how much it
would take to port squeak.org over to Pier. There's not a lot of
content, so it could be as easy as creating a pier image and then just
copy and pasting.

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Danie Roux <danie at danieroux.com> 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".
>
>  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?
>  - Shall I just grab the current image, start playing with it test the
>  viability of an upgrade?
>
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>  Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix - http://danieroux.com
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