[ZWeb] Zope.org and New zope.org status

Alan Runyan runyaga@runyaga.com
Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:06:51 -0600


> So Plone does add some nice features, regardless of what one thinks of 
> the UI (I do think that <http://zope.ch/> is much nicer to look at than 
> most Plone sites (especially in Apple's new Safari browser, which 
> doesn't render Plone's tabs well).  Fortunately, UI is replacable.

Yes and we would not want it to look like Plone in any way shape or
form.  well the 'folder contents' view you may want to look like plone's.
but the whole 'tab' paradigm could be easily dropped.  
 
> Another thing I'd recommend (in case this hasn't already been done) - 
> NZO should stick with released software wherever possible, and avoid 
> running on betas or even release candidates (and Plone is still at RC1 
> status) and should definitely avoid running on CVS checkouts.  Meaning 
> - if Plone is wanted, we should make sure that we test heavily against 
> what's there and try to help them get to a bug-free 1.0 release (RC1 
> has a couple of bugs that are easily fixable (and are fixed in CVS)).

RC2 will be out Monday.   I expect 1.0 to come out at SolutionsLinux
or before.  We just have lots of meatsack testing to do.  

~runyaga