Simplifying Plone

Simplifying Plone
With a chainsaw

Thank you Lennart

Zope 2

Zope 3

Plone 4

A process Ask Categorise Evaluate Identify Chop!

Guiding lights
Grok
Repoze
Pylons
TurboGears

Plone 4 Install Colours/logo Branding Content types Behaviour Integration Content & Settings Templating

Things that work well
Installation
Content editing
Collections (mmm.....)
ZODB
Settings

Cliffs
Changing the logo
Branding (“my designer gave me this”)
Content types (“I want to capture this data”)
Deployment
Adapters ?!?

Colours/logo Now Custom folder CSSManager DIYPloneStyle Problems Need to know Plone TTW/filesystem cliff ZMI is scary Future? Plone GUI: Front end to customisation registry

Branding Now Page template Skin layers Browser views Browser resources Viewlets Portlets Pain! Problems Too many ways No separation between customisation and theming Future? CSS should be enough Deliverance (NG?) plone.maintemplate?

Template Customisation Now Page template Skin layers Browser views Browser resources Viewlets Portlets 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 types Now 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

Behaviour Now Skin layer scripts Tools Methods in classes Adapters Problems Knowing where to put it Patterns Zope2 vs Zope3 Future? Adapters! Re-usable behaviours? Introspection Published 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! WSGI SSO Indexing Deliverance Repoze Grok

Some themes
Think 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/logo Branding Content types Behaviour Integration Content & Settings Templating

Simplifying Plone

by Alex Clark on Oct 20, 2008

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