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Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal

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Re: Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal

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Post by epenn »

etfb wrote: post #6

I used to work for AGIMO, and I personally implemented the first version of australia.gov.au. Funny story: I got caught posting something on Slashdot that they interpreted as critical of their decision making (spoiler: it was, because their decision making was hideous ), so they decided not to renew my contract. They still had me doing the australia.gov.au project though. I took what was, basically, a Photoshop docum…

So I felt a certain degree of whatever that German word is for "serves you right, you bastards".

Schadenfreude.

Re: Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal

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Post by etfb »

epenn wrote: post #21
etfb wrote: post #6

I used to work for AGIMO, and I personally implemented the first version of australia.gov.au. Funny story: I got caught posting something on Slashdot that they interpreted as critical of their decision making (spoiler: it was, because their decision making was hideous ), so they decided not to renew my contract. They still had me doing the australia.gov.au project though. I took what was, basically, a Photoshop docum…

So I felt a certain degree of whatever that German word is for "serves you right, you bastards". Schadenfreude.

Gesundheit!

Re: Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal

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Post by etfb »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #17

I have never used Drupal (I am not much into Python), but in general it makes lots of sense for governments to standardize on open source tools, including CMS. At least AFAIK, Drupal is fairly efficient. I would not be so enthusiastic about Wordpress.

sniuff is right, Drupal is all PHP, through and through.

As for Wordpress's alleged speed problems, I haven't had any trouble. The speed of development for WP is way ahead of that for Drupal, in my experience at least, to the point where I just refuse to work on Drupal installations and convert them over to WP as a first step.

Re: Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal

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Post by etfb »

fungi wrote: post #19

at least its not squiz

Amen, brother! Or sister. Or eukaryotic organisms. Whatever.

So what happened to Squiz? It was the godawful piece of shit that I criticised in the /. post that kinda-sorta lost me my job with AGIMO, so I wouldn't mind knowing how long it took for me to be proved right.

Re: Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal

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Post by dwd »

> Our preference is for Software-as-a-Service on Public Cloud, using Open Source Drupal software.

This is moronic. Why would you mandate using the most unusable CMS system from an end-user point of view when you are outsourcing the hosting and maintenance to a SAAS partner? I'm sure they could have cut a better deal with Sitecore which seems to power a lot of Government sites and is a far more coherent platform with a robust workflow and integration with Active Directory services.

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Post by voltagex_ »

etfb wrote: post #13
voltagex_ wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still in Canberra? I'd like to buy you a drink.

In Tassie now, happily running my own business and not dealing with cretinous managers. But thanks!

Ah right. Tassie seems to be the place to go - NBN enabled too!

Re: Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal

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Post by girvo »

etfb wrote: post #6

I used to work for AGIMO, and I personally implemented the first version of australia.gov.au. Funny story: I got caught posting something on Slashdot that they interpreted as critical of their decision making (spoiler: it was, because their decision making was hideous ), so they decided not to renew my contract. They still had me doing the australia.gov.au project though. I took what was, basically, a Photoshop docum…

I'm curious which mob it was, I know pretty much all of them up here, and I have an inkling as to who it might've been...

Re: Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal

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Post by girvo »

jacques_chester wrote: post #11
etfb wrote: post #3

The Australian government is particularly stupid at the moment. I leave as an exercise for the reader the question of whether this is example or counter-example of that.

Australian governments exhibit a constant level of stupidity; it's just that the focus on stupidity is shifted around depending on who is in power.

We have a surprisingly nice country, considering our governance over the years. I'm a bit worried 'bout the current mob, though, they seem determined to wreck things even more than previous governments. I think I preferred the previous mob: stabbing themselves in the back distracted them from stuffing things up!

Re: Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal

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Post by girvo »

etfb wrote: post #23
mark_l_watson wrote: post #17

I have never used Drupal (I am not much into Python), but in general it makes lots of sense for governments to standardize on open source tools, including CMS. At least AFAIK, Drupal is fairly efficient. I would not be so enthusiastic about Wordpress.

sniuff is right, Drupal is all PHP, through and through. As for Wordpress's alleged speed problems, I haven't had any trouble. The speed of development for WP is way ahead of that for Drupal, in my experience at least, to the point where I just refuse to work on Drupal installations and convert them over to WP as a first step.

I worked for a mob that only used Drupal. I'm one of those weirdos that actually likes modern PHP, but I didn't last long there. In my opinion nearly anything else is preferable to clicking through that damned GUI to get it to do what I want without hacking the core or messing with those damned hooks. I mean, check our changes into git? Why would we want to do that? :<
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