This document summarizes Kumar Akshay's work on improving the plonecli and bobtemplates.plone projects during the Google Summer of Code program. Key accomplishments included adding new subtemplates for content types, views, viewlets, and portlets, improving test coverage, and adding new commands to the plonecli tool like config and update_locale. The goals for the program were completed over milestones in May, June, July, and August. Participation in GSoC provided valuable learning and mentor support from the Plone community.

1. GSoC Improvements
on Plonecli
By Kumar Akshay

2. ● I’m a senior student pursuing Bachelor in Electronics and
Communication Engineering.
about me
● In my free time, I love to participate in algorithmic focused
coding challenges.

3. GSoC milestones
May June July August
First Evaluation
Improved content_type
subtemplate and other
minor updates
Second Evaluation
Added add/update locale,
mrbob default profile, test
commands in plonecli
Third Evaluation
Added view, viewlet,
portlet

4. bobtemplates.plone
● Uses mr.bob to generate boilerplate code for different
plone templates.
● You can generate templates like
○ addon
○ theme_package
○ buildout

5. bobtemplates.plone
● And subtemplates
○ behavior
○ content_type
○ theme
○ theme_barceloneta
○ portlet
○ view
○ viewlet
○ vocabulary

6. bobtemplates.plone
● And subtemplates
○ behavior
○ content_type
○ theme
○ theme_barceloneta
○ portlet
○ view
○ viewlet
○ vocabulary
● things that I worked on

7. content_type sub-template

8. content_type sub-template
● parent content_type name if global_allow is false
● Hiding filter option if dexterity_type_base_class is item
● increased test coverage for all conditional
configurations
● Robot tests coverage too

9. view sub-template

10. view sub-template

11. viewlet sub-template

12. viewlet sub-template

13. portlet sub-template

14. portlet sub-template

15. portlet sub-template

16. plonecli
● It’s a wrapper on bobtemplates.plone
● CLI for easy usage and simple to remember
commands

17. Why do we need plonecli config
command?

18. plonecli config command

19. update_locale command

20. other minor improvements
● More useful commands in plonecli
○ plonecli -V
○ plonecli test -t/-s/-a
● Increased test coverage
○ 6.66% increase in plonecli
○ 2% increase in bobtemplates.plone

21. other minor improvements
● For more detail -
https://github.com/plone/plonecli/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-Project-Report

22. GSoC experience
● Fun
● Huge learning curve
● Constant mentor support
● Very friendly community

23. GSoC mentors
Maik Derstappen Alexander LoechelEncolpe Degoute

24. plonecli
To know more about present and future scope of plonecli
“Plone CLI” by Maik Derstappen
On Nov 9 between 12:20 - 12:40 PM

25. project links
plonecli - https://github.com/plone/plonecli
bobtemplates.plone -
https://github.com/plone/bobtemplates.plone

26. Thank You
Any questions?