[Imc-drupal-dev] 3rd draft ready

[Sofia JarrinT]

hi,

I've just uploaded a third draft of the Proposal:
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Devel/ImcDrupalDev

I've tried to include as many edits as possible based on your emails. I have also tried to address the imc-tech concerns by removing any mention to Indymedias that have not officially approved this proposal (chiapas, qollasuyu). And added this line to the proposal:

"Our proposal is to work
collaboratively between several Indymedia sites, across oceans, to
build a Drupal distribution and theme that could be easily applied to
each base. We are committed to work with other IMC CMS groups in an
open and collaborative manner in order to build on already existing
technologies."

I also wanted to share with you Toya's explanation of some of the efforts that the imc-cms group has done in the past years, which is important and it was all news to me:

http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-tech/2008-October/1031-yy.html

I'd be particularly interested in learning more about what the techs on this list think about this:

Making the case against Drupal:
	1. The case is very simple. While it's possible that Drupal could be adapted to this architecture, ultimately Drupal is not a rapid application development framework. It offers modules and an API to deal with them, but Drupal is sorely missing all the truly amazing things that Cake (as in CakePHP) offers you as a programmer. Drupal doesn't want to be a framework, but when you boil it all down, Drupal MUST be a framework in order for it to be competitive. And it just isn't that nor do the developers intend it to be. To me, this is the end of the story.
	1. Modules - Drupal modules can be very attractive but can be a problem when is not supported for new versions of drupal. Collectives who have use drupal since 2002 had many problems with that, being forced to keep some sites under old versions for a long time, which also make it difficult for those sites to benefit of security patches and plugins that only run on new versions.
Let me know what people think and if we still want to move forward. Boston IMC is still in.

best
Sofia