Plone: Status, preparing a first release, SVN changes

[Carsten Senger <senger rehfisch de>]

Hi all,
hi ploneistas,

with the changes within the last week, we can prepare ourself for a 
first release. As far as I know the last "public beta", we nearly have 
the same features working (except of the section Products that is 
indefinitely postponed).

The current Tasklist can be found here 
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/CmsSetup

Status
======

Special thanks to Sebastien and Jonathan for their work to get the Theme 
in a presentable state.

- The Theme looks good for now. From the time Ramon set up the last
  Sandbox on gnome.jardigrec.eu we have made the following progress:

  - The black bar at the top (toplinks) with links to other gnome-sites
    is working.
  - We have two banners on the startpage from Máirín's mockup at
    http://people.redhat.com/duffy/gnome-brand/wgo/wgo_mock-9nov.png
    (Boston Summit and Get Involved). They are in fact "Static Text
    Portlets", a feature that comes with plone, and don't do any fancy
    things like rotation. They only provide an edit-box where someone
    can change the html that is displayed.
    That's less than what was scaffolded some times ago for the
    MainPage, but it's in my opinion even enough for the site to go
    live.
  - We have a working Mainpage with the current splash from
    www.gnome.org and the feeds from news and planet.
    It isn't shown as the default now, you have to append /@@mainpage to
    a new sandbox at the moment, e.g.
    http://localhost:8090/gnome20081102_133410/@@mainpage
    The splash and the feed urls can be edited.
    Maybe we can change it so that it's the DefaultView until the
    release.
  - we have the searchbox in the header

  In bugzilla you can find a handfull of bugs. It's fine when they will
  be fixed now, but they shouldn't block anything.

  What we don't have at the moment is a styled second level navigation
  menu on the right side, but we are working on that.

- We have a deploymentscript that can be run in a buildout and sets up a
  plone-site, installs the needed packages and imports users and
  content. The content that is imported is in svn and can be updated
  regulary when we have edited content in a sandbox. It does not support
  multilingual content properly now.

- Sebastien works on adding multilingual content support (LinguaPlone).
  It will probably be ready to test and play with it next week. But the
  content ex-/import does not work for translations at the moment.


First Release? svn changes
==========================

I suggest to do a release this weekend and update the sandbox on 
gnome.jardigrec.eu. What's left to do till then is fix bug's and polish 
things. For the release it's enough to tag the packages and the buildout 
in svn for now.

To be able to release and branch single packages in the future I want to 
change the layout of the gnomeweb-plone tree and give every package a 
trunk, tags and branches directory.

From::

  gnomeweb-plone/
    trunk/
      ...
      wgo.buildout-dev/
      wgo.theme/
      ...
    tags/
    branches/

to::

  gnomeweb-plone/
    buildout/
      trunk/
      tags/
      branches/
    wgo.theme/
      trunk/
      tags/
      branches/

To fix this in you working copy it a svn switch and maybe run 
bin/buildout again should be enough.

If that's ok I'll reorganize svn tomorrow and prepare and tag releases 
over the weekend.

Ramon, do you find time to update the Sandbox over the weekend?

..Carsten