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Re: wordpress (was Re: FW: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?)



On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 17:37 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 07:15:25PM -0700, Andy Streich wrote:
>  
> > Opensource blog software is pretty good these days and simple to set up (at 
> 
> Argh wordpress 
> 
> 1) the WP release model is incompatible with debian's security release
>    policy, in much the same way mozilla is: <http://bugs.debian.org/275814>
> 2) <http://blog.php-security.org/archives/7-WordPress-update.html>,
>    specifically "update 2".
> 
> -- 
> Jon Dowland               http://jon.dowland.name/
> FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A  83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238
> 
> 

How about Drupal? It's available as a standard-issue deb though  more
recent versions are on the Drupal site. Drupal is a cms rather than pure
blogging software but according to their write-ups plugins can be used
to achieve this.

I suspect an important reason for the popularity of web boards is that
they provide a greater sense of community than a mailing list and
become, for some, a place to hang out. At present, though, I don't think
anyone's really cracked the problem with web boards, namely that mailing
lists are fast, simple and don't require a gui to use even though they
are less flexible than the boards in some respects. In addition, web
boards require quite a lot of oversight and maintenance, in my
experience, not to mention server resources. So someone would have to do
a lot of work.

:)

Fish



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