[webteam] radical simplicity

[Matthew Wild]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im> wrote:
>  In particular, we talked about the possibility of scrapping Drupal
>  altogether and simply using XHTML and server-side includes, or at most
>  XML+XSLT, to generate the jabber.org website. This is what we do for the
>  xmpp.org site and we never have a problem there. Is the jabber.org
>  really all *that* different or special that it requires a full CMS?
>

As I said in the chat, I believe Drupal is simply the wrong tool for the job.

The listing of clients, libraries, and servers on www.jabber.org is
simply a hack as far as I can see. Even before the www.jabber.org
revolution I was arguing that Drupal wasn't the tool for the job. It
seems I was outnumbered though (and judging by the replies in this
thread, I probably still am) by Drupaleers :)

I think these things should be replaced with something else. I
originally suggested PHP, but given the choice between that and clean
XML+XSLT, I think the latter is more flexible for us.

We need not scrap Drupal, it may be good for the rest of the site, but
I don't think we should be trying to use it in some places beyond its
means. Personally I find a simple wiki satisfactory for most sites I
create, a full-blown CMS is just not needed. What jabber.org exactly
needs is obviously up for debate.

Matthew.