Re: PloneSoftwareCenter DOAP

[Martin Aspeli <optilude gmx net>]

Simone Deponti wrote:
> Okay,
>
> taking in consideration what Martin said, I've rethought some things, so 
> my new proposal is:
>
> 1. The svn used for developement will be the collective (if you want to 
> contribute and upload on the svn you'll have to obtain access there 
> through the methods explained by Martin)

+1

> 2. Branch the 1.0 Release on the collective svn as 1.0-doap-enabled. 
> This branch will merely focus on giving doap support to PSC-1.0 (meaning 
> that our changes could be easily ported to 2.0 once it's out)

+1

> 3. We will need to tweak lightly the workflows and the permissions, but 
> I think those thing can easily be done in the ZMI and later 
> exported/saved through the setuptool, so this work won't take place on 
> the product itself.

That's a good way to start. It's best to make a "policy product", 
though. This may be called GnomePSC or something; its install method 
makes the necessary changes to PSC (install/change workflow, etc) and it 
may have its own skin layer that overrides existing PSC templates if 
necessary.

> 4. All the modifications to meet the look & feel and interface 
> guidelines of wgo (see http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/GnomeProducts) 
> will be added by either merging templates and styles in gnometheme or 
> through the creation of those into another similar product 
> (PloneSoftwareCenterGnome?), that acts like an extension to PSC in order 
> to provide aesthetic/workflow customizations to PSC needed by wgo. 
> Because as far as I can see, excepting DOAP, workflow and "how is the 
> content displayed" seems to me that PSC meets all our needs.

+1

> I still have a doubt about what version use as base to implement our 
> template customizations (workflow tweaking is extremely simple to 
> implement even by a non-plone guy, the only relevant matter might be 
> auto-installation, which is why I proposed the creation of a product 
> PloneSoftwareCenterGnome). My preference would go for bleeding edge svn 
> in the hope to be able to have PSC 2.0 installed on our final release.

I would too; basically, the changes to 2.0 are not that great, but they 
will make for some user friendliness improvements. The only real ongoing 
work at the moment is to move the templates to use Zope 3 views to make 
them easier to extend and code and test as we go forward.

Martin