Zikula Meeting Recap 2009-08-12

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:01:34PM -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 02:29:54AM +0100, Simon Birtwistle wrote:
> 
> > I feel bad for disappearing on you at the vital time, but I am still working
> > behind the scenes to sort things out.  I'm also continually available via
> > email if you contact me direct.
> 
> Simon, you and the Zikula team have been a great upstream and
> supporters of our effort.  Timing can't be helped; and Fedora's
> release schedule is surprisingly quick when you are inside of it.
> This current frustration/disappointment you are seing is just the
> reality of cat herding in that fast-moving world; we really wanted to
> use Zikula for the Docs site to deliver our content for the Fedora 12
> release.
> 
> If that's any incentive for folks, BTW, feel free to use it as a
> carrot.  Reading between the lines of the last week's conversations, a
> magic rabbit could be pulled from the hat so we could be serving F12
> docs from Zikula.  But it requires more dedicated technical talent
> than we have available right now, all under the freeze schedule of the
> infrastructure systems.  When it gets up, it's going to be a pretty
> visible site.  I don't know off-hand the traffic the site has, but it
> has to be fairly high.

I want to second what Karsten said as strongly as possible.  We're
trying to stay on track as much as possible, and make rational and
impassionate decisions about how best to proceed.  There's no flagging
in our desire to see a Zikula CMS up and running, and we're very
grateful for the time Simon and others have put into this effort and
look forward to more of this very exciting collaboration!

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