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build:goals [2005/03/22 23:49] 64.85.218.10 More info on CMS goals. (CMB) |
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- | ====== Goals ====== | ||
- | Currently, all our Internet services (email, web, mailing lists, shell accounts) run on 2 AIX | ||
- | systems. (AIX is IBM's version of UNIX.) **Michelob** is running AIX 4.3; it runs email and mailing lists. | ||
- | **Dark** was recently upgraded to AIX 5.1; it runs the SLUUG.org web site. | ||
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- | We want to move a portion of our current Internet functionality | ||
- | to more modern systems, to allow more people to share in the work, as | ||
- | there are more people familiar with Linux than AIX. We'll also be able to | ||
- | do things that we hadn't be able to before, due to older software. | ||
- | SpamAssassin and PHP are 2 of the major things we want to start using. | ||
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- | One of my (Craig's) personal goals is to move management of web content to a | ||
- | through-the-web content management interface. The ideal package would have the | ||
- | following features: | ||
- | * Looks like a "normal" web site, with mostly static content | ||
- | * Editing a page is moderately easy, using wiki-like syntax or a WYSIWYG | ||
- | * Accounts/ACLs limit who can edit pages, on a per-directory basis | ||
- | * URLs look like URLs of a "normal" web site | ||
- | * Should use modern standards and practices, such as XHTML and CSS | ||
- | * Expandable, so we can add non-static pages later | ||
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- | The current systems will remain in some capacities. | ||
- | (At the very least, they will have shell access to play | ||
- | around with AIX.) Functionality will be migrated piece-by-piece, | ||
- | and no piece will be moved until it is ready. |