wgo Status & Next Steps

[Paul Cutler <pcutler foresightlinux org>]

Hi all - 

Thanks for all the discussion last month regarding the wgo revamp, we got quite the thread going.

After all is said and done, if I read the thread correctly, I believe it's best to continue our work on Plone and see if we can't see it through.  It sounds like there are still a number of volunteers working on it, in addition to Andreas & Vinicius working on some short term fixes in HTML for the current site.  (There are logs of bugs in Bugzilla if anyone wants to help on the HTML stuff in the short term!)

After reading through all of the emails, looking at open bugs in the gnome-web Bugzilla under beta, and reviewing http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/CmsSetup, I'd like to try and update that wiki page with the current open items and see if there are any volunteers who would like to work on them.

Here is what I took away as a brief summary of next steps for wgo on Plone (Please correct me where I'm wrong):

* We need to find a volunteer to host a test instance of wgo on Plone (similar to what Ramon had a couple years ago) - Jen Kleins mentioned in an email 27APR09 that David, who runs Plone-Hostings in France might be interested.   Jens, can you put David in touch with me or us on the list?

* http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/CmsSetup needs to be updated with next steps & action items - a few of the bugs I clicked through to Bugzilla that are marked as open on this page are really closed.  (I'm willing to take this on and re-write and maintain this page for action items once we have a good feeling of what the next round of tasks are).

(Carsten Senger email 03APR09):

* Clean up theme glitches, template work and customizations (such as removing author from pages)
* Configuration for multilingual content
* Update to Plone 3.3 (Jens Klein mentioned helping with this on 08APR09)
* Working content export / import from test system into staging system

(Jonathan Wilde 08APR09)

* CSS complete (but is unorganized and undocumented)
* Cleanup needed - Jonathan is working on major cleanup of the stylesheets in a new branch (wgo.theme/branches/speedbreeze)

With Murray's help, I'd like to understand who is working on (or interested in) the Plone migration for wgo.  I'd like to help in capturing the remaining tasks, and I'll work on getting those in to Bugzilla and on lgo, which might help in gaining additional volunteers if we have a clear goal of what work needs to be done.  Jens had mentioned in an email that there are at least 5 Plone volunteers working on this, and my hope would be that with a little communication we can continue to push on together to make progress on this.  I have no idea if it's realistic or not yet, but I would love to see a new website for the GNOME 3.0 launch next year.

Thoughts?  Feedback?

Paul