CMS + Fedora Magazine

[Karsten Wade]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:33:20PM -0000, Simon Birtwistle wrote:
> > Karsten,
> > I thought we would be able to use a single instance and have different
> > domain names point at different "groups".  Have multiple instances to
> > do the same thing seems a waste, IMO.

IIRC, we discussed this earlier in the process, whether Zikula could
handle virtualhosting-like situations.  In general, if one monolithing
framework can handle the multiple slices and serving of sub-domains,
that's fine with me.

However, the way I understand our Infrastructure to work, it may not
be much more burden to run multiple instances.  Puppet is going to
manage configurations regardless, etc.

> There are a couple of technical issues with single-instance.
> 
> 1.  Caching strategies - will certainly be different for the almost entirely
> static docs/www subdomains to the more user-oriented docs site.

This is true, although I thought we cached by sub-domain so it could
do it separately if the Zikula instance were serving different
sub-domains.

> 2.  Zikula doesn't currently support subdomains running on the same set of
> files (though it's easily achieved through symlinks) - and would they use
> the same database, or a different database?  If you use different databases
> with the same files then upgrades become a hassle

Interesting.  For the reasons I say below, I would guess different.

> 3.  Striping/server separation - e.g. if the magazine / docs / wherever else
> are on different physical servers for load or any other reason.

IIUC, this is true -- Infrastructure can more effectively scale
sub-domains that are unique to the host.

> 4.  Rolling out new features / fixing problems in general - you don't want a
> problem adding a new blogging module on the magazine site to take your www
> offline through some freak accident.

I'm also not clear if there is an intersect between the two content
types.  Is there ever going to be a reason to have content migrate
from magazine.fp.o to docs.fp.o?  Are we going to share processes and
workflows?

It doesn't seem like it to me right now, although that might be a
bridge we want to cross in the future.

This comes up similarly for the knowledgebase idea.  Is
e.g. kbase.fedoraproject.org a separate CMS or a part of docs.fp.o?

Since the content types are again different (very short, focused,
versioned articles v. longer guides maintained across versions), it's
probable that having the kbase and docs CMS in the same instance
wouldn't matter.

- Karsten
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Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
http://quaid.fedorapeople.org
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