More stupid Rocknerd breakage.

[reddragdiva]

There have been two stories on Rocknerd since the John Peel one ... but they don't seem to show up when you aren't logged in.

*headdesk*

How feasible would it be to pour the data out of Slash and into a CMS that doesn't suck as much? At least as a static copy. I know blarglefiend despises Slash with every fibre of his being that bothers remembering, and I deeply regret ever pushing Slash as a solution. Mind you, Zope was worse.

(Possibly with a new domain name owned by someone other than Ben Butler, who has been AWOL for a coupla years.)

(Note that the question is not "what CMS has a pretty skin and a whiz-bang interface" but "what CMS has a backend that's not shit and as a bonus could meaningfully use data from Slash?")

Comments

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

You could try YAWNS - a lightweight Slash clone which I wrote for ukfetish.info and which skx forked for debian-administration.org (use his version (http://www.debian-administration.org/Code/), it's shinier).

[reddragdiva]

Yes, I remember you mentioning that last time I asked ;-) The BIG question is if anything can be done with the current data other than locking it as a static copy somewhere.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Should be easy enough to get the articles from one db schema to another, I would have thought... I'd be willing to try to help write a Perl script to do it.

[reddragdiva]

We'll see what Matt thinks. Slash appears to be tentacles all the way down.

I'm increasingly realising the truth of Brooks' assertion that the schema is all. "Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." Jeremy Nixon is fiddling with home-rolled photo gallery software, and is starting with the schema — because if that's right, then the rest really is a SMOP: smart data structures allow simple code.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I have contributed code to Slash in the past, although not for some time... it doesn't scare me, tentacles or no :)

It's interesting seeing the different approaches that are emerging for web devel frameworks lately, with some taking the data as their lead... I quite like the concept, but it seems to be coupled with a lack of flexilibity in other areas so far.

[reddragdiva]

As the problem becomes better-understood, people have a much better idea what to put into the schema. Gallery 1.x to Gallery 2.x was mostly because their original schema was inadequate, for example.