[OpenID] Changes to the website coming soon ...

[Scott Kveton]

> > The Vidoop folks appear to be pretty far along with the WordPress
> > theme as well as the accompanying PHP scripts to drive some of the
> > forms for getting an OpenID, etc.  We're pretty far along here I think
> > and switching gears this late in the game (when we have 3 days)
> > doesn't make a lot of sense to me.  I just want this done.
>
> Agreed, I want this done too.

I feel like you're inserting yourself into this process at a rather
late stage when a lot of the work is already done.  I mentioned that
we would use WordPress during the board calls and the board agreed (or
didn't have anything to say otherwise).  If you had had a problem,
then would have been the time to discuss it.  Now I feel like you're
creating more work for the volunteers that are trying to get this done
in a timely fashion.

> I don't see a reason why MovableType would prohibit the PHP scripts
> they've been developing.  MT supports both static and dynamic
> publishing of templates.  With static publishing we can make MT
> publish the files directly as ".php" (or any other language we'd
> like) and use MT in that situation to manage the PHP source files.
> This still allows MT to automatically include the traditional
> template header, footer, sidebar, etc when statically publishing the
> file.  When working with dynamic publishing, MT actually use the PHP
> engine to render the pages.  This allows us to easily include
> snippets of raw PHP within our templates.  MT then allows us to
> choose static vs dynamic on a per-template basis.  http://
> www.sixapart.com/about/news/index is an example of dynamic publishing
> where we pull out excerpts of each post and add email, subscribe,
> Digg links.

My point is that we're creating more work than is absolutely necessary
because you want to use MovableType.  I still haven't heard you give
me a compelling reason (other than they support OpenID out of the
box).

Does anyone else on this mailing list feel strongly one way or the
other considering the current implementation is almost done?

> > What language is MovableType in?  I also like the idea of PHP for the
> > CMS (WordPress) and PHP for the wiki (MediaWiki) ... keeps things
> > pretty simple for us from an upgrade/management perspective.
>
> It is Debian, "apt-get upgrade" ;) :)

Actually its significantly harder than that.  The current
configuration is a mess today because we made poor decisions when we
first built out openid.net.  Any changes we make to PHP, Perl, SVN,
etc are quite difficult to implement without affecting other parts of
the infrastructure.  You have to admit that the current setup is like
spaghetti with two instances of apache running, etc to accommodate
BML.

- Scott