[Product-Developers] Diazo theming mission

[Alex Clark]

Hi,

On 5/24/11 11:05 PM, Alex Clark wrote:
> On 5/24/11 10:42 PM, Alex Clark wrote:
>> On 5/24/11 10:19 PM, Jon Stahl wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Alex
>>> Clark<aclark at aclark.net> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
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>>>> On 5/24/11 10:09 PM, Jon Stahl wrote:
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>>>>> Alex-
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>>>>> You should look back at the great work Veda Williams did on "OOTB
>>>>> Plone Themes" for Plone 3. Different technology, different details,
>>>>> but the *process* she used was fantastic, particularly with regard to
>>>>> QA. http://www.coactivate.org/projects/ootb-plone-themes/project-home
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'll take a look, thanks! Maybe we can use the new JIRA stuff to
>>>> bootstrap a
>>>> Plone themes project.
>>>
>>> That would be a great use of JIRA, IMHO. Fair warning: Veda put a
>>> *lot* of work into coaching/mentoring/cat-hearding people during the
>>> OOTB project.
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>> I suspect we can re-herd a lot of those folks. (Side note: It's really a
>> shame what happened to coactivate, it's basically unusable at this
>> point.)
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>>> I've been thinking about this a lot lately in the
>>> context of Diazo. I think a big difference between now and then is
>>> that there are some good open-source themes available, but it will
>>> probably take some thought/evaluation to identify ones that are really
>>> worth adapting.
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>> It's not just that there are good open source themes available, it's
>> that they are now "cheap" to produce (via diazo, p.a.theming) and
>> distribute (via p.a.theming, p.resource). I think this may quite
>> literally blow the lid off the Plone theming story. The "expensive" part
>> now falls squarely on the graphic designers and HTML/CSS/JS folk, where
>> it should be. (Even more so if the Plone editing UI gets an overhaul, as
>> is being discussed.)
>>
>> I'm going to coral folks in #plonetheme on Freenode (where Veda held a
>> few sprints, it looks like).
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> Done: http://projects.plone.org/browse/OOTBT

And I've created the first "epic" issue: 
http://projects.plone.org/browse/OOTBT-1. I will create other smaller 
issues based on this "epic" issue shortly. (I came up w/12 points per 
theme, but I'm not sure that is a good estimate, as I've no idea what 
I'm doing really).

Right now, I'm planning to do a half dozen of these themes by the end of 
the month, and davi-lima and toutpt are each doing one so that gives us 
8/12. We need a few more volunteers in order to be able to reach 12 
themes by the end of the month :-).


Alex



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