[Zope-CMF] Re: CMF roadmap update

[Martin Aspeli]

Hi Jens,

> CMF 2.0.0 is now out the door and I have made some updates to the  
> roadmap document. Please take a look and give me some feedback on the  
> dates (well, the only dates we have set are the dates for CMF 2.1) and  
> the description of 2.1:
>
> http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/docs/roadmap/document_view

The roadmap feels largely on track. Some of the stories we're still trying  
to get straight in Plone are:

  - We'd like to use Five views wholesale, but we can't stop people from  
doing local customisations. The way we solve that now is to register view  
classes without templates and then acquire them:

  tal:define="view context/@@plone_view"

And leave page templates in portal_skins as usual. I would personally  
settle for a mechanism by which we could use views with page templates  
associated, but where the *page template* could be customised TTW. If  
someone needed additional logic, they would either have to fall back on  
python: expressions or old-fashioned scripts, or make a new view to  
override the existing one - the most important use case is the "tinkerer"  
who just wants to fiddle some basic HTML or TAL to get Plone (or CMF) to  
look the way he wants.

  - We'd like to investigate the possibility of using Zope 3 schemas to  
create content types. I haven't had time to go in a detail yet, but Alec  
Mitchell already did some of this in 'listen' by deriving from PortalType  
and manually constructing an FTI. If more of the FTI mechanisms and the  
context-dependent things like the "add" menu (which is of course  
constructed by portal_types) could be implemented with more general  
adapters, I think we may be able to make the glue between CMF content  
types and Zope 3 content types thinner.

  - Content import/export via things like ContentSetup, would be very  
useful to standardise. There are currently a few efforts, like Marshall,  
xmlio and XMLForrest (which I believe form a stack, with XMLForrest being  
the most usable one). However, these things are dependent on Archetypes as  
far as I understand. If CMF land and Zope 3 land have ideas for content  
import/export it makes sense to consolidate these.

Thanks again - we look forward to integrating with CMF 2 :-)

Martin

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