[Framework-Team] PLIPs for Plone 3.1 - Flexibility with Portlet Managers / Types

[George Lee]

Hi,

I've submitted two PLIPs for Plone 3.1 --
 http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/205
 http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/207

Both would be minor changes to allow more flexibility with registering portlet
managers and portlet types. PLIP #205 allows assigning portlet types to multiple
interfaces of portlet managers, to give more flexibility where various portlet
types are addable. PLIP #207 allows registering a portlet manager with a custom
portlet manager class, but defaulting to the standard portlet manager class.

One motivation behind #207 is that with the current registration proceudre, some
portlets such as the Calendar will be available in every new portlet column. An
alternative way to handle this issue is by using PLIP to #205 register portlets
like the calendar for IColumn and IDashboard. Unlike #205 and #207 though this
proposal may break backward compatibility.

Peace,
George