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I hope this clears things up for you Narayan, I think you may be
getting confused about the project teams (documentation team) choice
to use the Drupal site as their development tool.

To summarise the official plan for the LibreOffice.org domain:

Now: Static HTML (Implemented through GIT)
Very soon: Silverstripe (Being developed at test.libreoffice.org)
Early 2011: Drupal (Being developed at libreofficeaustralia.org)

The reasoning for this decision made by the Steering Committee, as
stated in the conference call was that Drupal was the obvious choice
for the official LibreOffice site, being powerful, extendable and
having a massive developer/user base, but there were not enough
developers on board yet willing to put in the time to develop the
Drupal site. At the time there was a few people who could launch a
site based on Silverstripe quickly (Expected within about a week but
has taken a big longer) in order to create an online presence beyond
static html pages. This site is currently located at
test.libreoffice.org, which was largely left up to anybody who was
willing to contribute to build what they wanted across the different
languages, which was acceptable as the site is temporary and the
longer term planning and development is going into the Drupal site.

Effort will not be wasted on the Silverstripe site as we plan to move
the pages from Silverstripe to Drupal when we are ready to launch the
site. It is likely that the only difficulty we will have will be if
people start to try to extend Silverstripe beyond it's capabilities
with custom coding as is necessary for the proposed download page.

Michael Wheatland

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