Re: Gnome Plone Migration Update

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 21:48 -0400, Christopher Warner wrote:
> > Ramon, I realize we are all busy.. I'm extremely busy myself; I'm going
> > out of town next week. I'd just really like to get on with this as it's
> > been nearing 5 months or so since any real progress has been made. It's
> > not that fixing this stuff is difficult either. It's more of a time
> > issue. So, can you get back to me with something?? Anything??
> > 
> > Feel free to email christopher warner nymag com or
> > christopher warner gmail com or this address. If for some reason you
> > need to call.. 646-334-6780. I'm not gonna chase you down over it but
> > it'd be really sad to just let this fall to the way-side.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> 
> I think i've done my absolute best in trying to contact or offer my help
> in regards to this. I've decided to proceed regardless of Ramon's
> position on the issue at this time.

Thanks. Waiting is rarely a good strategy.

>  If anyone feels this is a bad idea
> please let me know otherwise here is what I plan on doing.
> 
>      1. The slot issue occurs because the viewlet code needs to be
>         rewritten. I will rewrite this for Plone 3.x
>      2. Currently i've started most of the addons as Products so I can
>         verify the stuff I currently have works. From there I will
>         create a buildout for the new install.
>      3. Once the above is done; it will need to be hosted somewhere. In
>         our initial discussion I was weary of using Varnish
>         (http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/) because it required having
>         gcc on the hosted machine which is obviously a risk in regards
>         to security. Ramon made a valid argument that gcc would be
>         needed to build Plone anyway which is a valid argument
>         technically speaking.  I'm not exactly sure what the current
>         environment involves so I will need proper contacts etc for this
>         so I can have a discussion about the needs and how this can fit
>         into the  current ecosystem.
> 
> If there is anything missing from this list please let me know or feel
> free to add. I plan to update after every task is completed and leave
> notes/comments on my blog or somewhere else as I move forward through
> each task. I will begin this work 5/5 onward. Again, if there are any
> issues in regards to this please let me know.
> 
> Thanks
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