[OOTB-infra] blog aggregator

[Heiko Robert]

Oksana,

it's not redmine I like it's about to control the data instead of just 
using their hosted UI.
It would be very disapointing if we decide to move our content to 
another server / other platform and then to realize that it's not 
possible. So same argument against blogger.com like against github for 
non repo content. Wordpress allows to export content from the hosted 
version:http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ but since it's very easy 
to install I would vote for an own install to access or extend APIs 
install plugins as designed. For just writing a blog hosted on a 
subdomain I think it's very hard to compete against wordpress and we 
should go for that. (btw: alfresco does the same: 
http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/)
Your second requirement was to create an archive for existing content to 
be copied or referenced. That would be hard to build in a blog system if 
you want more than just tags to structure. I would prefer a wiki like 
system for that but would like avoid yet another component.
The redmine aproach was meant by example to avoid multiple solutions and 
control data: Use an easy to use editorial system to create, link 
articles, documents, includes but which has flexible APIs to 
alternativly /read/consume/ the content from other systems like the 
website using REST/xml or REST/json instead of html output. This would 
allow us to create the cool design on the website but load the dynamic 
content using AJAX from the editorial system and to use the easy user 
interface to manage the content. This technique is easy to implement and 
only requires JavaScript/json knowledge but all components need to be 
accessed from the same domain.
Same approach could be achived with wordpress: 
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/wordpress-got-json-api/

I agree, we should only use as few platforms and/or networks as possible.

Regards
Heiko

Am 15.10.2014 um 19:24 schrieb Oksana Kurysheva:
> Heiko, why do you like Redmine so much? :) It will be again our 
> internal application. But we need a nice design/interface for external 
> users (not members of the Order). I like JSON on the website because 
> it doesn't require additional tools. But this time I agree, that we 
> need more than JSON.
>
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