Re: Some ideas to improvement the website

[Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org>]

Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:37 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cm...@collab.net> wrote:
>   
>> Dongsheng Song wrote:
>>     
>>> 1. website format
>>>
>>> I suggest use xml format, we can select docbook website like NetBSD[1], or
>>> custom xml format like httpd[2].
>>>       
>> We already decided against fussing with generated websites.
>>     
>
> FWIW, generally speaking, ASF infra isn't a huge fan of mod_include or
> other dynamic techniques.  It's probably fine now as there is likely
> enough excess capacity...but there's a reason why the ASF only served
> purely static content for a looooong time.  =)  -- justin
>   

I'm really allergic to most kinds of write-XML-and-generate-HTML
confusions, including mod_include ;the reason being that when I modify a
page, I want to be able to "test" it without having to fire up a local
web server or some other extra process. At least mod_include keeps the
source in HTML, and if capacty ever becomes an issue, it's pretty much
trivial to generate static pages from mod-included ones.

CMS rules but only for much more complex sites, and of course that burns
capacity even faster...

-- Brane