[imc-cms] [Imc-drupal-dev] IMC CMS - next meeting Saturday 30th September 1400 UTC - https://chat.indymedia.org/ - channel #cms

[Dave Fregon]

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 18:55 +0300, qwerty wrote:
> The steep learning curve applies more to the development of Plone "products" 
> (components). But that's would only be necessary for core changes, like 
> defining the data types. 

Very true, I have presumed a lot by saying that there aren't many folk
around .. they seem to be coming out of the woodwork.

> If there is a core of a few experienced Plone devs to start from, then I don't 
> think it would be such a problem for indymedia techs to adapt. When people 
> see how easy it is to customize mostly everything, they might be interested 
> in learning more and start contributing back their changes.

Yes, I have been very very negative over my views, mainly as I haven't
been able to find any other Indy techs (except 1) in Australia, nothing
like having a couple of people with all the workload. Most of the folk I
have met with 'Plone experience' have only had TTW experience, not
filesystem products or the like.

I have been coming from a development point of view, from producing and
maintaining code and migrations. I agree, maintaining a Plone site is a
pleasure. Extending it is a lot less of a pain than doing so with a PHP
system.

> That's great and we should definately exchange code! :-)
> I'm also working on a Plone product for Indymedia sites, with a couple of 
> other indy techs from Athens. It's almost ready for a first public release. 
> We just have to find a couple of days to work on releasing it.

I'm in! I would really like to help out, and keep in touch, we too are
in the process of putting an ATVideo site live this weekend (engage
branch fyi, tho there's a lot of code not yet in the Plone.org svn, but
soon will be). Obviously there's a lot that we can mutually provide each
other. I have also started on redoing the old Active code, active.org.au
(with stuff like customised PloneMiniSites). You probably have most of
the code that I would be doing myself already done by the sounds of it.

this has made my day :) I will definitely get in touch qwerty, just low
on time this week pushing out a stable of dev.engagemedia.org

Dave

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