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Re: Forums are future work?
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2007-10-26 01:06:21
On Oct 24, 2007, at 07:09, bharder wrote:

> There are 3 ways (roughly) that I can think of
approaching this:
>
> 1) Complete integration, where this is deeply-tied into
Bric... I  
> think this actually _not_ the route to go at all, as
it's blurring  
> of the data-mangling that Bric does behind the scenes,
and front- 
> end production _serving_, which Bric doesn't directly
deal with.

Agreed.

> 2) "Wrapping" a solution around Bric output
-- this is what Allan  
> did when he wrapped the Bric output in Drupal
processing. The  
> problem with this is
> a) performance
> b) dealing with multiple paradigms dealing with data

I'm not sure I follow you here. To my mind the ideal is
using  
Bricolage for the back office workflow and publishing, and
to publish  
it to a front-end like Drupal.

> 3) Co-processing -- (the route in using) is something
that sits  
> "along side" the production server, and does
it's processing,  
> feeding back to Bric. In this case Bricolage is still
quite  
> seperate from the actual serving of content (as it
should be, in my  
> opinion), but the results of the comments/forums are
fed back to  
> Bric for integration on next publish. In my
imagination, this allows
> a) High performance
> b) Better seperation of the front-end/back-end
processing
> c) Even better integration than a "wrapper"
method

I never really did see the advantage of this. Why would you
want  
forum data pushed back into Bricolage?

Best,

David



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