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Re: Light CMS function for Bedrock?
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Steven Garrity
Apr 9, 2013, 10:32:33 AM4/9/13
to Dan Poirier, dev-moz...@lists.mozilla.org
It seems like support for l10n would have to be a hard requirement for
this. Some type of review process would be ideal as well.
Worth investigating though.
Steven
On 04/02/2013 02:00 PM, Dan Poirier wrote:
> I was browsing some bugs and saw some discussion about how just changing
> some text on the web site requires a full branch/edit/pull request/code
> review/test/deploy cycle, which seems like overkill in many cases. The
> solution people seem to be using is to move entire pages of content to the
> wiki.
>
> I think Bedrock could benefit from a light CMS feature, where people with
> the right privileges could edit some sections of text on existing pages
> without requiring code changes. That would let Mozilla retain more control
> of those pages than a wiki would have, while bypassing the laborious code
> update process.
>
> This would only let authorized people edit page sections that have been
> marked as editable in their templates. Editors couldn't change anything
> else on the page, create new pages, delete pages, or anything else. That
> level of change would still require a code change.
>
> There are a number of Django packages that let you do this kind of thing.
>
> Caktus has developed one that I think is pretty good, django-scribbler,
> thought it might be a bit too light-weight for our use case.
>
> django-scribbler gives real-time preview of what the page looks like as
> it's edited, and even autocompletion of HTML markup and within template
> tags, so I think it's pretty friendly to people who might lack confidence
> when editing HTML, though it's not for people who don't know anything at
> all about HTML.
>
> On the other hand, there's no review process or other workflow, and no
> history kept. There's also no support for translation.
>
> If this sounds worth pursuing, we might work out just what features we'd
> need to have, and could then look for a package that has those features, or
> add them to an existing package, maybe even django-scribbler :-)
>
this. Some type of review process would be ideal as well.
Worth investigating though.
Steven
On 04/02/2013 02:00 PM, Dan Poirier wrote:
> I was browsing some bugs and saw some discussion about how just changing
> some text on the web site requires a full branch/edit/pull request/code
> review/test/deploy cycle, which seems like overkill in many cases. The
> solution people seem to be using is to move entire pages of content to the
> wiki.
>
> I think Bedrock could benefit from a light CMS feature, where people with
> the right privileges could edit some sections of text on existing pages
> without requiring code changes. That would let Mozilla retain more control
> of those pages than a wiki would have, while bypassing the laborious code
> update process.
>
> This would only let authorized people edit page sections that have been
> marked as editable in their templates. Editors couldn't change anything
> else on the page, create new pages, delete pages, or anything else. That
> level of change would still require a code change.
>
> There are a number of Django packages that let you do this kind of thing.
>
> Caktus has developed one that I think is pretty good, django-scribbler,
> thought it might be a bit too light-weight for our use case.
>
> django-scribbler gives real-time preview of what the page looks like as
> it's edited, and even autocompletion of HTML markup and within template
> tags, so I think it's pretty friendly to people who might lack confidence
> when editing HTML, though it's not for people who don't know anything at
> all about HTML.
>
> On the other hand, there's no review process or other workflow, and no
> history kept. There's also no support for translation.
>
> If this sounds worth pursuing, we might work out just what features we'd
> need to have, and could then look for a package that has those features, or
> add them to an existing package, maybe even django-scribbler :-)
>
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