[Radiant] still active?

[Sean Cribbs]

Maarten,

Yes, I understand the documentation problem.  That is one reason why we 
have been trying to promote the wiki; documentation is time-consuming to 
write.

Sean

Maarten Oelering wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> Thanks for your extensive reply. I am happy to hear that Radiant is  
> very active.
>
> However others might get the same impression as me, which probably  
> would not be the case if radiantcms.org is updated more frequently.  
> But, as you say, the quality of the code is what counts, and not the  
> packaging.
>
> The fact that Radiant, like any other CMS, may not do eveything out- 
> of-the-box is not a problem. That's one of the main reasons why I  
> prefer a Rails based CMS, since it makes developing extensions a lot  
> easier.
>
> What made me enthousiastic in the review I mentioned is that Radiant  
> is part of list of well-known CMS's and considered as an interesting  
> new contenter which looks very promising. As a ruby developer, the  
> only lacking feature I have a problem with is the part about the  
> documentation. I will check out the Styled Blog template as you  
> suggested. This might help me creating the layouts and structure of  
> the site. However my less technical colleagues must also be able to  
> edit content or add pages to the site. If the rather conceptual  
> documentation is extended with more concrete examples, it might help  
> a lot.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Maarten
>
> On 20-feb-2008, at 15:46, Sean Cribbs wrote:
>
>   
>> Maarten,
>>
>> Let me assuage some of your fears.  Radiant is VERY active, people are
>> using the CMS all the time to build websites, and I receive at  
>> least 15
>> messages a day on the mailing lists.  Your perception of inactivity in
>> the project may be because we release fairly infrequently, for an
>> open-source project.  I would say that's a combination of the limited
>> time our core developers can devote, the overall quality of the code
>> (fewer bug fixes) and our commitment to that quality (we try not to
>> release broken code).
>>
>> I would not fear using it for "serious business websites".  If you  
>> want
>> evidence of its usage in a "serious business website", look no further
>> than redken.com (USA site) and redkensalon.com.  Granted, we made  
>> heavy
>> customizations to Radiant for that site, but the team I worked with
>> assured me that all of the sites they have built, most of them with a
>> PHP-based CMS, have required an equivalent customization effort.
>>
>> Regarding templates (layouts, actually), Radiant gets out of your  
>> way in
>> that regard.  Design whatever template you want, Radiant can serve it.
>> If you want to know how to create a layout, it's best to bootstrap
>> Radiant with the "Styled Blog" template and read its layout(s).  They
>> are actually a lot simpler than you might expect.
>>
>> Let me be clear. Radiant won't do everything for you, but most of your
>> needs will be satisfied by the base installation: designing, creating
>> and publishing pages.  For other things, you will need to look into
>> extensions.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>> P.S. Those lacking features made you MORE enthusiastic? Did I  
>> understand
>> you correctly?
>>
>> Maarten Oelering wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm a ruby developer and very enthousiastic about Radiant. The review
>>> on http://www.a3webtech.com/index.php/cms-3.html mentioning the less
>>> mature state of the project and the lack of an installer even made me
>>> more enthousiastic.
>>>
>>> However I am still hesitant using it for a serious business websites.
>>> I miss some critical documentation on creating templates for a decent
>>> website, i.e. how to use the system in the role of webmaster. Reading
>>> the documentation on radiantcms.org didn't help me much. Fortunately
>>> the article in artofmission.com cleared up some things for me.
>>>
>>> Overall I get the impression that project is not very active, judging
>>> on releases, the blog and the mailing groups. However I can't see
>>> what's going on behind the scenes. Is Radiant still alive and  
>>> kicking?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Maarten Oelering
>>>
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