Re: external image of SPIP, compared to other CMS : what do you think about it ?

Hi Gilles,

I developed some websites in Germany with SPIP and I used SPIP because
of its intuitive "Back-Office" - it's well designed and simple to use.
It's build for humans not for IT-professionals... and so after a short
introduction everybody of my customers can work with SPIP and change
the content of their sites.

For me as an foreign developer the language of the internal "script
language" is mostly irrelevant. Well, starting with SPIP you need a
time of familiarisation but then it's okay. You have to learn some
things for every CMS, and so you learn to write BOULCE instead of LOOP
or #TEXTE instead of #TEXT.

More disturbing for me is the lack of an consistent documentation for
non-french speaking developers. Since Version 1.8 SPIP made some very
big steps in the development - e.g. the Plugin-System etc. pp. But the
documentation was not to made these big steps. So the documentation
now is a patchwork with a lot of missing links. So I now that there
are powerful Plugins, but they are not well documented nor they are
translated - so I can't use them, because this is destroying the
easy-to-use-backoffice. I can't explain my customers that their is a
very cool function but only in french...

So - don't get worried about the names of internal scripts - that is
not the problem. The problem is, that the documentation for developers
doesn't made the huge steps of the deveolpment of SPIP: SPIP is like a
TGV and the documantion is more like a 2CV...

Greetings from Bochum
Heiko

2009/6/14 Gilles VINCENT <gilles.vincent@...>:
> Hello,
> I started a discussion in the list spip-dev, and would like to have your
> opinion :
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.spip.devel/53775
> (automatic translation here : http://tinyurl.com/lmeqo7)
> This was in reaction to a discussion about to name to give to a new
> functionality in SPIP : themes in the private area.
> In your opinion, which impression of SPIP can be perceived by non-french
> speaking developers ?
> -- especially you may feel concerned by this message from Klauss, who is
> German, http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.spip.devel/53825 --
> (automatic translation here : http://tinyurl.com/mvqfyj)
>
> Thanks for reacting,
>
>
> .Gilles
>
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