[webteam] radical simplicity

[Robert Martinez]

Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> I'm currently reading a book entitled "Radical Simplicity", which
> happens to be written by one of my cousins:
>
> http://isbn.nu/0865714738
>
> As we are discovering, Drupal is not radical simplicity. Earlier today
> we had an impromptu chat about that in the webteam room:
>
> http://logs.jabber.org/webteam@conference.jabber.org/2008-05-12.html
>
> 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?
>
> Your thoughts are welcome. :)
>
> Peter
>
>   
Matthew pointed out correctly that we are drifting away from the key 
questions somewhere else in the thread.
So I restart here.

I would absolutely vote for further use of Drupal.

I have no complete overview of what is "broken" with the current system 
(maybe somebody can put together a list with more precise drupal related 
problems?)

My attempt would be to re-start the drupal page from scratch, this time 
with all the aspects that made problems right from the start.
And more important: restart with somebody who likes to work on drupal 
has some experience and time to do so.

If we need to get a temporary other solution (hand-coded or whatever) 
until we're done that will be fine with me.