Re: Bug#426069: ITP: spip -- website engine for publishing

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Romain Beauxis wrote:
> * Package name    : spip
>   Version         : 1.9.2b
>   Upstream Author : SPIP Development Team <spip-dev@rezo.net>
> * URL             : http://www.spip.net/ and 
>                     http://trac.rezo.net/trac/spip/
> * License         : Mainly GPL and other open source licences
>   Programming Lang: PHP with some JS
>   Description     : website engine for publishing
>
>  SPIP's benefit consists in:
>  .
>  * managing a magazine type site i.e. made up mainly of 
>    articles and news items inserted in an arborescence 
>    of sections nested in each others.
>  * completely separating and distributing three kinds of tasks 
>    over various players: the graphic design, the site editorial 
>    input through the submission of articles and news items and 
>    the site editorial management.
>  * spare the webmaster and all the participants to the life of 
>    the site, a number of tedious aspects of web publishing as 
>    well as the need to learn lengthy technical skills. 
>    SPIP allows you to start creating your sections and 
>    articles straight away.

This was already in the archive and has been removed mostly for
it's poor security track record. Re-introducing it is a very
bad idea.

Cheers,
        Moritz