Great work Carsten! I think that putting the buildout etc... in the collective is going to be the biggest win, in terms of encouraging contributions. +1 on that.
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Carsten Senger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Murray, > > for more than a year I read this list. I contributed small things during > the decision process but had no time to do work on gnomeweb-plone. > > There are results of the sprint during ploneconf and Jonathan worked on > wgo.theme since then, so I see a chance that the development comes to speed. > Putting the buildout into the collective on svn.plone.org is one of the > things that make it much easier to get contributions out of the plone > community. People like me are used to it. > > So I tried to get involved today and find tasks that are usefull now, but > that's really hard. The wiki and bugzilla are really outdated and there is > no such thing like a gnomeweb-plone-team. I try to talk to the people that > sprinted in washington in the next days. > > To get a better overview and make it easier for others to start I plan to > do the following things in the next days: > > - I'll install a testsite on a public server and update it regulary. > The easiest way is to install it on my server, but I can install it to > any server if you want to. The testsite will be up in 1 or 2 days. > - Then I try to update and extend the tasklist > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/CmsSetup and do some more cleanup in > the wiki. Many things there are outdated and that makes it difficult > to get started > - Work on a repeatable way to fill new sites with conent and > prepare content > > The testsite is basically plone with a basic visual theme. It does not hold > the content that was in previews testsites. I try to fix that step by step. > Adapting Plone to the requirements of gnome.org will take a while. > Hopefully we can get a handfull of regulary contributing plone developers. > Whenever we have a working state with notable progress I will update the > testsite. > > We will see if gnomeweb-plone makes good progress in the next weeks. > Setting other deadlines isn't possible in my opinion. > > > Murray Cumming schrieb: > >> On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 19:59 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 18:00 -0700, Jonathan Wilde wrote: >>> >> > [...] > >> >>> Which of these are regressions compared to the Plone 2 version that was >>> running on a test site once? I realise that you'll have to guess the >>> answer (based on your understanding of Plone 2 & 3) because you probably >>> never saw that site. >>> >> > It's a big regression. If I understand it correctly we refactor code from > late 2007/early 2008. It misses much funktions, design and content that I > saw in testsites around late2006/early 2007. I also did not find an > repository with code from 2006/early 2007. If someone has that code, it > would be a great help. Also having a backup from an old testsite would help. > > There was activity around PloneSoftwareCenter (DOAP, scalability). > PloneSoftwareCenter made substantial progress. I think most needed > adjusments are included in upstream today. > > > In the meantime I tried to do a "buildout" of this new fork, using the >> instructions here: >> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/PloneImplementation >> (Using wgo.buildout-dev instead of wgo.buildout. I guess you renamed >> that.) >> >> But when running the instance, and trying to look at it in a browser, I >> got this crash: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/checkouts/gnome224/gnomeweb-plone-fork2/wgo.buildout-dev$ >> ./bin/instance fg >> /home/murrayc/checkouts/gnome224/gnomeweb-plone-fork2/wgo.buildout-dev/parts/instance/bin/runzope >> -X debug-mode=on >> > > [...] > > end_element_ns >> self._cont_handler.endElementNS(pair, None) >> > > This was a missing file and some other small things. Jonathan fixed them > today. > > > Here's my recommendations on how to finish up those tasks as fast as >>>> possible: >>>> >>>> 1. Create a publicly-visible task list of what needs to get done. >>>> We could use http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ or another hosted >>>> service, such as Remember the Milk. >>>> >>> There's no reason to use anything other than bugzilla.gnome.org or >>> live.gnome.org. >>> >> > That sounds good. > > >>> We had already been using the "beta" version in the website product in >>> bugzilla, with the Plone 2 site. Most of those bugs are probalby not >>> worth worrying about until the Plone 3 site is up and running. Again, >>> nothing should distract from getting that running - please don't >>> distract yourselves with attempts to add new features or improvements. >>> >> > I will install a testsite within two days. But it's no continuation of the > plone2-"beta". I did not find anything from a plone2-development that we > could integrate. But maybe I'm missing something. > > > ..Carsten > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-web-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list >
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