Hi Jens,
CMF 2.0.0 is now out the door and I have made some updates to the
roadmap document. Please take a look and give me some feedback on the
dates (well, the only dates we have set are the dates for CMF 2.1) and
the description of 2.1:
http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/docs/roadmap/document_view
The roadmap feels largely on track. Some of the stories we're still trying
to get straight in Plone are:
- We'd like to use Five views wholesale, but we can't stop people from
doing local customisations. The way we solve that now is to register view
classes without templates and then acquire them:
tal:define="view context/@@plone_view"
And leave page templates in portal_skins as usual. I would personally
settle for a mechanism by which we could use views with page templates
associated, but where the *page template* could be customised TTW. If
someone needed additional logic, they would either have to fall back on
python: expressions or old-fashioned scripts, or make a new view to
override the existing one - the most important use case is the "tinkerer"
who just wants to fiddle some basic HTML or TAL to get Plone (or CMF) to
look the way he wants.
- We'd like to investigate the possibility of using Zope 3 schemas to
create content types. I haven't had time to go in a detail yet, but Alec
Mitchell already did some of this in 'listen' by deriving from PortalType
and manually constructing an FTI. If more of the FTI mechanisms and the
context-dependent things like the "add" menu (which is of course
constructed by portal_types) could be implemented with more general
adapters, I think we may be able to make the glue between CMF content
types and Zope 3 content types thinner.
- Content import/export via things like ContentSetup, would be very
useful to standardise. There are currently a few efforts, like Marshall,
xmlio and XMLForrest (which I believe form a stack, with XMLForrest being
the most usable one). However, these things are dependent on Archetypes as
far as I understand. If CMF land and Zope 3 land have ideas for content
import/export it makes sense to consolidate these.
Thanks again - we look forward to integrating with CMF 2 :-)
Martin
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