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We are company of four developers, who develop web aplications starting from simple websites and ending with advanced and custom client web applications. We are looking for CMS for same reason we finally decide to use community driven framework rather than our own. For few years we used our own framework, but because there are so few of us, it is hard to maintain and keep up to date and improve our framework and in the same tame make successful application for clients. That is reason why we decided to choose community driven framework and we are really happy, that few months ago we chosen fuelphp becaouse of its simplicity and flexibility. You can really even enjoy coding with fuelphp. The same for the CMS. We have four to five different admin interfaces for different kind of projects, and by every new project we have ideas what to improve and every time create a bit different version, improve something, remove somerthing and so on. And it is again hard to maintain it and keep up to date for all the projects. What we are looking is for unified administration interface with some standard functionality (like blog, categories, authorization, main settings). And some kind of modular system or hooks, so that you can easilly add your custom modules (like ecommerce, projects and tasks, whatever) and don't think of a small details (like paging, forms, tables, interface and form handling stuff) anymore and concentrate on your project only. And also doesn't forget to contribute and help improving fuelphp as much as we can. By unifiying development and using standart tools helps for project development a lot, by last year we moved from svn to git, from own fw to fuelphp, and it was amazing gain in experience and quality... So only thing left un-unified is CMS. That is why we are looking for it. So the answer is - not for fame, not for fortune, but to unify development environment.

Phil Sturgeon wrote on Sunday 11th of December 2011:

If you try and open it from Day-0 you'll have a "death by committee' piece of junk that gets nowhere. Make something that is useful for you then open it up.

Very good point. That is why we see thousands of apps in github for example with initial or few commits only. We already have some initials cms app, however there is quite different approach needed if you are planning to open it up later, rather than keep it just for your own custom project development. Need to think about that.

Well, several exist, but most are not Open Source, because they are made by companies to make money.

The only one I know that is available for download is http://www.novius-os.org/

In any full-blown CMS it would be difficult to add standard components of the underlying framework.

In our application framework it is also impossible to just throw a standard controller in and expect it to work, it needs components that are especially written.