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

[Alec Mitchell]

On 8/22/06, Martin Aspeli <optilude at gmx.net> wrote:
> 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. :-(

I would say that anything that doesn't have something valuable ready
by the PLIP review deadline should probably only be allowed in at the
sole discretion of the release manager.

Alec