I think pointing newbies to the list of PLIPs is not a wise move from a marketing standpoint. You can certainly have the link to the PLIP page from the roadmap page, but I think there needs to be a more accessible and human friendly page showing what's coming in Plone 4/5. The list of PLIPs will just scare all but the most technical people away.
Compare the descriptions of Plone with the Joomla and Drupal description on this page: http://guide.conecta.it/index.php/Content_management_systems Which of those CMSes (if you were completely new to CMSes) would be most attractive to you? The Drupal and Joomla descriptions tell you *what* you can actually do with the CMS. I think we need to boil it down for people and tell them that Plone can do all of those things as well, and show them examples of where it is done. The roadmap page is probably the first thing I would look at if I were choosing a technology on which to build my future website. It would need to be have a clear vision of what major changes will impact me, how they benefit me, and why they are important. It should be written in a non-jargony tone, but have links to more technical descriptions if I want to read the nitty gritty details. The roadmap page should get me excited about the future of Plone, preferably with screenshots and screencasts demonstrating these new features that will be included. It should instill trust that the Plone software project is moving forward and there is a unified vision for where it is going. Nate On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Alexander Limi <l...@plone.org> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:29:08 -0700, Steve McMahon <st...@dcn.org> wrote: > >> Unfortunately, the situation is *much worse* than Marie indicates, as the >> roadmap page is completely obsolete and outdated since we switched to >> trac. >> It's more than a bit embarrassing that we link to it from the home page. >> >> We should have something better, but meanwhile, what should we do with the >> old roadmap page? It may be useful to some as a historical artifact. > > The idea (at least for now) is to point it to the Trac roadmap page, and do > a bit better job with the release descriptions there. > > Eric Steele and Yours Truly have volunteered for this task, but we didn't > want to do it until 3.3 was out. Now it is, and the old roadmap page can be > retired. > > I don't think we need to involve Mark and others in this particular case — > they have much more important things they could be spending their time on — > but we can definitely do much better than we're doing right now. > > If nothing has happened by the end of this week, feel free to call us out on > it. :) > > -- > Alexander Limi · http://limi.net > > > _______________________________________________ > Framework-Team mailing list > Framework-Team@lists.plone.org > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/framework-team > -- Nate Aune - na...@jazkarta.com http://www.jazkarta.com http://card.ly/natea +1 (617) 517-4953 ** Learn best practices for deploying your Plone sites at our upcoming Plone Deployment Training in Budapest ** http://plonedeployment-natesig.eventbrite.com _______________________________________________ Framework-Team mailing list Framework-Team@lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/framework-team
