What is Conglomerate?

Dave Malcolm <[email protected]> 18 Feb 2004 02:11:23 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.editors.conglomerate.general,gmane.editors.conglomerate.devel
Message-ID <1077070283.21298.174.camel@shirehorse1>
I've been updating the Conglomerate website and I'm wondering how people
feel about a change to the description and stated goals of the project.

Currently the website has a very old description of Conglomerate as a
client/server content management system.  

However, Conglomerate as it currently stands is purely a client-side
thing - an XML editor for end-users.

This reflects my personal interests - I'm keen on having a user-friendly
XML editor, potentially with support for connecting to various CMS
systems, but I'm not especially interested in writing my own CMS.

I know that at least one person out there agrees with me:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121340

So I'd like to reposition the project so that it's firmly on the
client-side, as a user-friendly XML editor.  But I'm wary about simply
updating things, especially the stated goals of the project - how do
people feel about such a change?  Users?  Developers?  Founders of the
project?

Also: are there any CMS systems that we should support?  Do we need to
even bother supporting CMS systems?

Thoughts?