It may be a surprise to non-technical people to learn that pages created in Volto are not currently interoperable with traditional Plone's page editing. If you think about it, the reason becomes obvious. Volto, like Mosaic, creates tiled layouts, and like Mosaic it stores page data in special fields for the individual blocks and their layout. Neither Volto nor Mosaic pages are editable in TinyMCE, which expects just one rich text field. Is this divergence between sites created in Volto and sites created in traditional Plone a problem? It does make it harder to describe what Plone is to users and it might mean that there is no way to mix both approaches, for instance when part of a larger 'classic' site is also available as a Volto-based sub-site. Would it be possible to have one tool and one representation for tiled layouts so that we can avoid this divergence? Is there some other solution? Is it even a problem? Will Plone 6 be backwards compatible with Plone 5 and include a smooth upgrade path? We will tackle these questions in this strategic panel discussion, moderated by Sally Kleinfeldt. Panelists will include Paul Roeland, Philip Bauer, Timo Stollenwerk, Victor Fernandez de Alba, and Eric Steele.

1. The User Experience:
Editing Composite Pages in
Plone 6 and Beyond
Moderator: Sally Kleinfeldt
Panelists: Paul Roeland, Timo Stollenwerk,
Víctor Fernández de Alba, Eric Steele, Philip Bauer

2. Classic, Mosaic, & Volto Pages
Different internal representations
Not compatible
Is this a problem?
Is there a solution?
Is 1 tool, 1 representation possible?
If we need 3, how to position?

3. How to have a big Classic site with a
subsite made in Volto?

4. How to upgrade a big Classic site with
lots of Mosaic pages to Plone 6?

5. Cost and benefit of upgrading a big
Classic site to Plone 6?
Arguably, user cost was high and
benefit was low for Plone 4.3 to 5

6. Alex Limi's vision for Deco
Are we there yet?
Fulfilled by Mosaic?
Fulfilled by Volto?
Something still needed?

7. Questions

8. Next steps
Sprint?
Open space?
Committee?
Marketing it?