Simplifying PloneWith a chainsaw

Thank you Lennart

Zope 2

Zope 3

Five

Plone 4

A process

AskCategoris

eEvaluate

Identify

Chop!

Guiding lights

Grok

Repoze

Pylons

TurboGears

Plone 4

Install

Colours/logoBranding

Content typesBehaviour

Integration

Content & Settings

Templating

Things that work well

Installation

Content editing

Collections (mmm.....)

ZODB

Settings

CliffsChanging the logo

Branding (“my designer gave me this”)

Content types (“I want to capture this data”)

Deployment

Adapters ?!?

Colours/logoNow

Custom folderCSSManagerDIYPloneStyle

Problems

Need to know Plone

TTW/filesystem

cliff

ZMI is scary

Future?

Plone GUI:Front end to customisatio

n registry

BrandingNow

Page templateSkin layers

Browser viewsBrowser

resourcesViewletsPortlets

Pain!

ProblemsToo many

ways

No separation between

customisation and

theming

Future?

CSS should be enough

Deliverance (NG?)

plone.maintemplate?

Template Customisation

Now

Page templateSkin layers

Browser viewsBrowser

resourcesViewletsPortlets

Pain!

Problems

Z3 vs. portal_skins

Portlets, views viewlets?

3 places: ZCML, Python,

ZPT

Future?

GloWorm

Unified portlets, viewlets, views

Filesystem round-trip

No ZCML

Content typesNow

ArchGenXML

Archetypes

plone.app.content

Problems

Need to learn Python

Lots of boilerplate

ArchGenXML product !=

custom product

Future?

Simple schema + view TTW

Filesystem round-trip

No boilerplate!

Specialisation of labour

BehaviourNow

Skin layer scripts

Tools

Methods in classes

Adapters

Problems

Knowing where to put

it

Patterns

Zope2 vs Zope3

Future?Adapters!Re-usable

behaviours?

IntrospectionPublished Patterns

... but you shouldn’t need to

do it as much!

Non-content management

Now

Archetypes

Custom views

Custom Python

Problems

Performance

Consistency

API fit

Future?Don’t do it in

Plone!

WSGISSO

Indexing

DeliveranceRepoze

Grok

Some themesThink about the audience

Find the “one true way”

Remove other ways

Customisation registry

Embrace through the web...

... but allow filesystem round-trip for deployment and collaboration

Plone 4

Install

Colours/logoBranding

Content typesBehaviour

Integration

Content & Settings

Templating