[webteam] radical simplicity

[Peter Saint-Andre]

On 05/12/2008 3:00 PM, Florian Jensen wrote:

> I agree, that it would be a pity to go back to a static page.
> Especially, after all the work that has been put into the new website. 

Sunk costs. Get over it. :)

> I
> say, we speed up the development of our Drupal 6 site, hoping that all
> the problems we had are fixed in the modules. 

Well, the problems this morning were caused by "upgrading" to a Date
module in Drupal 5. The fact that released software caused such a
serious problem does not inspire confidence.

> We prepare the new site on
> a freshly installed machine with lighttpd and php5 (athena soon?) and
> then simply do the switch. We get rid of the oversized user db, we keep
> open registration disabled, as it will simply confuse people. Now we
> know what problems there are with Drupal, so we can do it better on the
> new Drupal 6.

That is one approach, yes. And maybe it's best. But we've had a lot of
fragility in a lot of our systems lately and it's frustrating...

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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