Light CMS function for Bedrock?

[Dan Poirier]

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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Dan Poirier <dpoi...@caktusgroup.com>