Hello Carsten, Am Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:49:44 +0200 schrieb Carsten Senger:
> 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. Ok, this sounds primary like missing project management? [..] > Remaining work: > - the theme glitches Should be simple to solve if the goals are defined. > - template work and customizations like removing the author form pages same here > - configuration for multilingual content. might be more work, in most cases LinguaPlone plays nice, but if not its a beast. i can try it if the policy is clear. > - an update to Plone 3.2/3.3 if an update 3.3! well, also simple, i can help here > - 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). Why use 2 systems? its hard to maintain. We have working-copy support! > I think additionally requirements where dropped or deferred long ago. ok. also it seems like theres no official test-deployment? imo it need to be installed on a official server to have gnome server admins included in the process. for a site like gnome.org we need a decent caching (varnish 2) and so a well-configured cachefu. zope should be started as a little cluster. load-balancing between zope can be done by varnish or maybe better pound. it should be configured in a way, so even slashdot cant bring it down (and here helps varnish since rendering html is always slow, and fetching from varnish is speedy). anyway, gnome-folks, are you still really interested in having a new CMS? Reading the project list it seems theres only Murray Cumming left from the gnome-team. regards Jens -- Jens W. Klein - Klein & Partner KEG - BlueDynamics Alliance _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
