Please, allow me to congratulate Matthew Langham and all the involved people at http://www.need-a-cake.com/ for the development of the Cocoon Portal and its donation to the Cocoon community. Very nice software and very nice distribution policy!
I will try it at once and, later, I will try to contribute back some "module", if possible. I hope this app will collect a lot of enthusiastic programmers. It is the kind of application we need for making Cocoon widely accepted by the community of "real-world" web developers (you know: little time + a lot of work = little time to study cocoon...). A few notes: 1) A good documentation (and a clean "plug-in" architecture) is required for having many programmers working on it and its modules. Please, make available some developer documentation asap. 2) For the people willing to develop a "module": a good idea of which components can be useful in a generic portal, and how they can be designed, can be seen at the ezPublish web site (http://developer.ez.no). That CMS has many well focused and well designed modules we could/should port to Cocoon portal. 3) It seems that the portal is intended to became part of the standard Cocoon distribution. That is a great idea! Better again: use it as the "default" application to be run just after the installation. It will make clear what can be done with Cocoon and it will supply a very good starting point for the user, no matter what he have to build. Alessandro Bottoni --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
