[tech] Content Management for UCC

[Davyd Madeley]

This gets discussed every now and again, but perhaps we should do
something about it.

The UCC webpages suck because they are constantly out of date. This has
a lot to do with the webpages being hard to maintain, requiring
knowledge of several DTDs and being aware of strict XML formatting
rules.

The solution is a content management system. There are three options
that we know about now:
 - Something Wiki based, like MoinMoin/Bounce (Bounce is a MoinMoin
   frontend I wrote for displaying web pages from Wiki content),
 - MySource, and
 - Plone

Dynamic content is not mermaid's forte, so at the same time perhaps we
should consider moving content off mermaid. Either handing it to mussel,
martello or maybe that new Sun mainframe (Disk + CPU == Database Server)

Ideally a move like this would want to happen in the near future, so
that we could start porting new content into the engine. Ready for next
year. What do people think?

--d

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