ISCB-SC:Website:CMS Comparison Table

About this document
This document is an appendix of ISCB-SC:Website.

WCT team members, please add functional and non-functional requirements from ISCB-SC:Website:Requirements to the comparison table.

We could make a judged decision on CMS software then.

WCT team members responsible for CMS comparison:


 * Alexander
 * Thomas
 * Abhishek
 * (add your name here)

Trial/Evaluation installations
Playgrounds:


 * Drupal (maintained by Thomas)
 * Joomla 1.5 (maintained by Alexander)

Should we have minimum requirements for the playgrounds? As a basis to test? --Thomas Abeel
 * a forum that uses the same login credential as the login for the web site
 * some basic content, copied from the current iscb site to play with
 * 4 groups of users:
 * anonymous, can only read content
 * authenticated, can post in the forum
 * sc-leader, can add and edit content on the main site
 * admin, can modify all content of the site, can change the layout of the site.

Discussion
Other week/strong points not included into the comparison table should be discussed here.


 * (+Joomla) Joomla 1.5 is the choice of ISCB for the new ISCB portal. With the integration and possible portal merging in the future, I find it a very strong point --Alexander
 * As you stated on the other pages, merging is not straighforward, even when using the same sofware. Using the same software does not ease the transition, so I do not agree that the ISCB's choice is a strong point. I think we should find out why ISCB picked Joomla. Maybe those reasons are a strong point, but the choice on its own says very little. --Thomas Abeel


 * (+Joomla) Joomla! 2006 Open Source CMS Award Winner --Alexander
 * (~Joomla) (~Drupal) This should really be place in perspective. From the website of the company that gave the award: "The final result, as voted for by judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the Eclipse Foundation, and 16,000 users on www.PacktPub.com saw a tie for first place between Joomla! and Drupal. In the event of a tie, a fourth independent judge would be brought in. This was Apoorv Durga who is a member of CM Pros and runs his own blog on portals and content management. This crucial vote ended up with Joomla! triumphing over Drupal by one point." From that I gather that the margin is actually quite small and that we should look at what functionality we need and which CMS offers those features. --Thomas Abeel
 * I should also mention that 2006 was so far the only year the award was given and the voting process is not transparant. And the company (it is a company, not some big organization) that gave the award is a recently (2004) started publishing company. For the 2007 award, the finalists are Elgg, Drupal, Moodle, LifeType and Wordpress, but Joomla is nowhere to be seen this year.


 * (-Joomla) (+Drupal) Have a look at some other overviews of the strenghts and weaknesses of both Joomla and Drupal.  Using the current list of requirement we really need Drupal for the fine-grained access right alone. --Thomas Abeel

Comparison Results
When comparison table is discussion is complete, WCT should have a voting.

Total votes:


 * Drupal: tbd
 * Joomla 1.5: tbd
 * reserved (Plone): tbd

CMS selected: tbd