Re: Distro releases, responsibilities and Plone

[Christopher Warner <christopher warner gmail com>]

> I mailed you some personal thoughts about what I think. And for  
> everyone
> else - as Murray has pointed out there is still some work being done  
> in
> the background. Personally I dont think one should force those who do
> this to make a premature release. I am willing to contribute on many
> levels but think those who have more access and backing from the
> community should be responsible and leading. Actually I cant do much
> more than commenting and providing patches as a result of how GNOME is
> organized today.
>
> I like to help getting some things fixed and also some issues from the
> list of TODOs. I also think if nobody cares nothing will change. I  
> would
> encourage rather the approach of just starting fixing things than the
> lets wait for the thing that does it all. I even do not believe that a
> deployed Plone will resolve most of the issues. I think a Plone could
> help fixing:
>
> * Creating new content for non techies be more easy
> * Giving more users the right to add content.
> * Make it easier to fix minor errors like spelling errors, updating
> URLs, etc.
> * Provide a site search
> * help structure the content
>
> But if I should guess I would expect that it would take at least six
> more months to move most of the content to the Plone site once it is
> deployed. And then still there will be pages that will have not been  
> moved.
>
> So I think its great if Plone will become the great tool ir promises  
> to
> be but I also think it will be a bug relief for those working on its
> implementation if things are being fixed now.
>
> I do not care if my patches are being replaced by something better in
> the future, but as long as they are not here, I think its more  
> important
> to encourage people to sub, it patches and to apply them.
>
> I also like to thank everybody who invested their time and effort up
> till now.
>
> Regards,
> Thilo

In regards for patches, for the website that's one thing but for the  
Plone site; to date, since I last spent a solid couple of days working  
on it. Nothing has progressed. The main issue is rewriting the portlet  
code and I'd need a day or two to deal with it.

-C