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

[Martin Aspeli]

George Lee wrote:
> 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.

A non-counting +1 from me on both PLIPs.

Martin

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