BeeSeek Blog

Good news for the BeeSeek community!

We have transferred, in the quest for greater integration between our services, all our sites on a single platform: drupal. It is a CMS that, thanks to its modularity and extreme versatility, made us able to create a portal, wich consists of blog, forum, home and planet, totally integrated with each other.

Changes for users are:

• You need a single account for all the sites
• Logging once you have a session open in all the 4 sections
• Perfect uniformity in graphics and functionality

For members of the new team webmaster, who is responsible for the technical management of the site:

• Ease of adding new features thanks to the significant number of modules on drupal
• Ease of adding new features thanks to the quality and quantity of documentation and API released, that make possible to interact with the main CMS' parts
• Excellent assistance on the official channels: #drupal and #drupal-support on the irc.freenode.net network

Unfortunately, the negative aspects arrive just on one of the most important services to us: the wiki. Used to the excellent moinmoin, CMS developed in python for wikis realization and used with extreme satisfaction since the birth of BeeSeek Wiki itself, we were unable to replace it with drupal. The reasons are to be searched in the low presence in Drupal of wiking features, which don't make us equally satisfied. Of course if someone of you have instead proposals about it, don't hesitate to leave a comment below.

Currently one possibility we have taken in consideration is to create a bridge between databases, at least in the management of users. Even for this solution we are looking for new developers who have the desire and knowledge to perform these tasks.

The characteristics we are looking for the wiki are:

• Formatters
• Syntax highlight
• Sync
• Subscription pages wiki
• Rollback
• Creation of macros, plugin and new formatters
• As well as those typical for wikis