I am very impressed with Alfresco ( http://www.alfresco.org). I think it is
one of the better open source CMS systems out there.
-- Dov Rosenberg Conviveon/Inquira Knowledge Management Experts http://www.conviveon.com http://www.inquira.comOn 10/28/05 5:41 PM, "Andrus Adamchik" <andru..bjectstyle.org> wrote:
> This post is more related to Cayenne community rather than Cayenne > technology... > > I've been looking for an easy to use content management system for > ObjectStyle.org web site (and of course for its Cayenne part). Our > current system (aside from Confluence and Jira) consisting of XML > files that need to be checked out from CVS, edited by hand, and then > rebuilt with Ant/Velocity, clearly outlived itself. There is lots of > other choices out there, though none seem to be good enough to > warrant the switch. Features I am looking for are the following: > > 1. Content posting by authenticated users. This includes online > editing of any part of the static site. > 2. Support for 100% custom templates to ensure the site is structured > and looks the way *we* want it. > 3. An ability to grab external RSS feeds and post them under news > section (right now we can't even scrape our own blog). > 4. We need to be able to maintain User and Modeler Guides in one > place and then publish them in two places - on the web site and as > part of release documentation. > > Confluence (not sure about the new versions) won't work - it doesn't > address (2) and (3). Most open source CMS's are written in PHP > (surprise!). I have no prejudice against PHP, aside from the fact > that it only works with MySQL, so I evaluated a few packages. The > winners were Drupal and WordPress. On the surface Drupal addresses > all the requirements except for (4), but I quickly got lost in its > configuration menus. I didn't feel like I gained any productivity > compared to our current checkout/edit-by-hand/deploy approach. > WordPress had nice UI for publishing (and a lot of nonsense > surrounding it), but didn't allow to embed RSS. I even invested some > money to do a pilot project integrating Drupal, WordPress and our > current Velocity templates, but the result was simply too complex to > maintain. > > So now I am doing what I should've done long time ago - asking for > community advice. Anyone knows of a simple CMS that satisfies all the > requirements above and is still simple to use and maintain? Open > source systems that work with PostgreSQL are preferred. Of course > commercial programs that would donate a license to an open source > project would work too. > > Alternatively if you have experience configuring systems like Drupal > (if I am not mistaken, Spring uses Drupal, and their site is not that > bad), and can volunteer to do a prototype of a Drupal site (and help > me with a "mentality switch" part), please let me know. > > Thanks > Andrus
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