Re: www.gnome.org redesign status

[Carsten Senger <senger rehfisch de>]

Hi Jens,

Jens W. Klein schrieb:
> Am Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:59:32 +0200 schrieb Murray Cumming:
>
> > Lucas Rocha asked me what the gnome.org redesign status is, so here
> > goes:
> >  
> > 1. There are still people working on a Plone site, though there hasn't
> > been much activity recently. I don't believe they will succeed, because
> > this has failed so often, but nobody should stop them from trying as
> > long as we don't have something else. If they do manage to get a working
> > test site up then that wouldn't still be a very initial stage and would
> > still need a phase of public feedback and reworking.
>
> What are the problems with using Plone? I build Plone sites all day long 
> for public sites and intranets, ... So I use Gnome (within Ubuntu). So if 
> I can help, tell me. I think I'am also good in solving difficult problems 
> with Plone, its my business. Just give me some pointers and access: Where 
> are  buildout, code, design skcetches, concept, ...?

It's a long, unsuccessful story that has nothing to do with Plone 
itself. I don't know the details before last fall, but the position of 
the gnome folks is correct. Today it's mostly about people loosing track 
for work or personal reasons, including me.

At ploneconf 2008 some people (Sebastien and Jonathan Wilde?) reworked a 
Plone theme that was developed some years ago (without being released). 
It has some glitches, but is mostly there.

The code is in the collective/gnomeweb-plone:
http://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/gnomeweb-plone/README

The Summary is in the gnome wiki including a link to gnomes bugzilla and 
a list of tasks that was assembled before the I cleaned up bugzilla:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/CmsSetup
The project docs (Evaluation, Requirements, Structure docs) are spreaded 
over the wiki, links are on the CmsSetup page.

Remaining work:
- the theme glitches
- template work and customizations like removing the author form pages
- configuration for multilingual content.
- an update to Plone 3.2/3.3
- working content export/import from test systems into a staging system
  There where many problems like loosing references and images during
  the development with many (I mean really many) Plone versions and
  environments. Last fall they hadn't even access to the content they
  created. But meanmeanwhile I thing this should be dropped).

I think additionally requirements where dropped or deferred long ago.

..Carsten