[Product-Developers] Fwd: collective.composition needs a new name

[Carlos de la Guardia]

Sorry, forgot to hit reply-all.

Carlos de la Guardia


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From: Carlos de la Guardia <carlos.delaguardia at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Product-Developers] collective.composition needs a new name
To: Martin Aspeli <optilude+lists at gmail.com>


For now, you need to do this:

$ git clone https://github.com/collective/collective.composition.git composition
$ cd composition
$ python bootstrap.py
$ bin/buildout

Carlos de la Guardia




On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Martin Aspeli <optilude+lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to test collective.composition? The build fails with:
>
> While:
>   Installing.
>   Getting section instance.
>   Initializing section instance.
>   Installing recipe plone.recipe.zope2instance.
> Error: There is a version conflict.
> We already have: zope.interface 3.5.1
> but zope.schema 4.2.0 requires 'zope.interface>=3.6.0'.
>
> Looks like a KGS issue?
>
> Martin
>
> On 5 July 2012 20:55, Héctor Velarde <hector.velarde at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 29/06/12 20:46, Jon Stahl wrote:
>>>
>>> One FAQ: I see that this uses "latest greatest" technologies such as
>>> tiles, Deco's blocks renderer, etc.  Can you explain how this product
>>> relates to "Deco Lite" (e.g. plone.app.toolbar, etc.) and how they
>>> will play together (or not) in the future?
>>
>>
>> sorry for the delay but I ended up a little bit burned out after the sprint
>> ;-)
>>
>> before answering, and just for the records, I will quote Martin on a recent
>> thread on Deco full and Deco lite:
>>
>> "The difference between 'full' and 'lite' comes down to what happens to
>> the rendering of the rest of the page (e.g. do portlets get replaced
>> by tiles, does main_template get replaced by a bit of HTML with tiles
>> in it) and how much we refocus Plone's default content type story on a
>> smaller number of types (e.g. just page + file) with the differences
>> we see today between news item, event etc being seen more as a
>> difference of layout and metadata."
>>
>> first I want to explain why we are creating this package: we need a solution
>> suited for news and intranet sites. this kind of sites have special
>> requirements on terms of permissions and versioning.
>>
>> for instance, suppose you are running The Planet, a news site that has a
>> bunch of editors focused on getting news on different topics like Economy,
>> Health or Sports.
>>
>> if you are the main publisher of the site, you may want to leave people
>> working on the Economy section to take care of their content published on
>> the front page, but you don't want that same people messing around the
>> Sports section.
>>
>> also, suppose you have the final game of the World Cup and the match is
>> going to be defined on penalties: you may want to prepare a couple of cover
>> pages and publish the right one focused on the team that won at the end.
>>
>> this is the kind of issues we want to solve with this package; we are far
>> from it, but that is the idea.
>>
>> we want also the package to be very easy to use so, in case you don't need
>> any of those advanced features, you can just ignore them.
>>
>> we think the Plone community doesn't had anything like this, even as we
>> respect a lot all the great job done in many other packages. we took ideas
>> from all of them and we are trying to learn from what we think were
>> mistakes.
>>
>> obviously, the state of technology right now let us did some things way
>> easier than a year ago and to take care of things that were not even
>> mainstream, like responsiveness.
>>
>> having said that, we want to play with plone.app.tollbar and all the other
>> new stuff but we can't wait until it's stable. we appreciate a lot that Rok
>> has stepped in taking care of this and we will love to see how to integrate
>> it on future versions, but we have a project to complete before next August,
>> and many more to come.
>>
>> that's it.
>>
>> we think that Deco full and Deco lite can learn now from our mistakes, so we
>> can end with a much better UI story for Plone at the end.
>>
>> in case anybody wants to dive further into the concept behind the package,
>> please take a look at the mockups, I think they are really descriptive:
>> https://simples.mybalsamiq.com/projects/capas/grid
>>
>> and please feel free to download the development buildout and test it by
>> yourselves: https://github.com/collective/collective.composition
>>
>> we want to ear from you :-)
>>
>> on the names, we are analyzing them and thinking about... we are going to
>> open a poll.
>>
>>
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