[Framework-Team] Re: Let sleeping PLIPs lie...

[Martin Aspeli]

Hi,

> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/117 (AJAX dep)
> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/116 (AJAX dep)
> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/163 (AJAX dep)
> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/124 (AJAX dep)

All of these are fairly obvious. There will naturally be tweaking and 
iterations of the implementation, but I think that these types of 
improvements can sometimes be done on trunk rather than in branches 
where they either would affect several other branches (e.g. a new widget 
that several new features may need) or where they are straightforward 
and/or easily reversible (e.g. a template change can be reverted without 
serious dependency breakage).

Let's see what does come in time for the deadline, but if some of these 
don't, I'd be +1 to seeing them done afterwards *provided* that the beta 
and RC deadlines are taken seriously!

Pragmatically speaking, as Limi points out, it's also a bit unfair to 
penalise these PLIPs when we haven't got the AJAX story sorted out yet. 
There is still too much uncertainty to start on any of these in earnest.

> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/175 (sleeper PLIP)

This is a kind of meta-PLIP. Yes, we need more control panel pages. :) 
Having people add them a bit later in the day should be fairly low-risk 
though. It's only slapping a nicer UI on features we already have!

> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/126 (sleeper PLIP)

Link type improvements would be nice to have, but needs a champion.

> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/132 (limi was wrong)

I believe Florian was onto this as well (getIcon improvements). Again, 
it's not terribly controversial.

> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/176 (visual redesign pending)

If this is too invasive, it may be a bit risky and impact a lot of other 
PLIPs. If the changes are relatively minor or gradual, they may be OK. 
This sounds like branch work, though. :)

> A special one is:
> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/134 (too important to be 
> dropped, needs champion - also relatively easy to do)

We need a champion for this, badly. It's an important feature, and I've 
seen a lot of users confused by the lack of editor/viewer local role 
management on the sharing page. It's also relatively straightforward, it 
just needs a person in charge. :-(

Martin