Re: Plone: Status, preparing a first release, SVN changes

["David Bain" <david bain alteroo com>]

Carsten,
Thank you for all this work. This project is becoming more and more
approachable. I'm glad that you have invested all these hours in
whipping this thing into shape. Looking forward to a more approachable
project and hope to be able to contribute in the near future.

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Carsten Senger <senger rehfisch de> wrote:
> 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
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