Minutes of Nov 16, 2007 meeting
Topic of CS vs. Dreamweaver/Contribute was brought up and Matt clarified that it may have been simplifying things to think about this process as a choice between these two products, but that in reality, many other options exist
- Response: This may be true, but there was a good deal of effort that went into selecting CS in the first place (3 years ago) and we're not in a position to initiate another search for a CMS at this time.
- This opinion was not shared by everyone and by the end of the meeting it was suggested that perhaps we should look into other CMS solutions in-depth since CS was chosen by a larger group for different reasons
- possibility that it's not the best option for this project
Dec 5th meeting
Interview with Dave DeMello re. ILR use of Commonspot - pros and cons.
Does well:
Templates, security issues, enforce initial design, story types, manage and propagate change with lots of granularity
Does not do well: Custom elements (e.g., no support for collection data types), has API but does not offer enough benefits, can't share elements easily among CS sites, can only send 'recipe' and others have to recreate it.