[advocacy-discuss] [website-discuss] Thoughts on an opensolaris.com

[Jim Grisanzio]

Derek Cicero wrote:
>> hi, Laurent ... Alan updated the doc. I think the new infrastructure 
>> will help us get on the same page with regard to the language/country 
>> portals. The current portals are basically projects to get us started 
>> building communities of people to translate and create language- and 
>> country-specific content. The current web app isn't really suited for 
>> localization, but the new infrastructure will be, and then we can 
>> implement the portals properly and migrate the content that has been 
>> translated thus far.
>>     
>
> Just to be clear, Alan is currently working specifically on the part 
> which removes the authentication operations from the larger os.org app 
> and will allow multiple apps to use a streamlined, centralized system.
>
> The decision about how to handle content management and the resulting 
> internationalizations and localization options is not being worked right 
> now.
>
> Alan's been working this by himself (although he has asked for 
> assistance on multiple occasions) and has made great progress, but he 
> needs to get this first piece done before all the other decisions (and 
> feature requests) get addressed.
>   

Thanks for the clarification, Derek. I agree. I'm just referring to the 
general plan in Alan's document. Authentication has to come first. No 
worries.

Jim
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