Hi Michael, all,

2010/12/27 Michael Wheatland <[email protected]>:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:20 AM, David Nelson <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Hi Andreas, :-)
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 01:02, Andreas Mantke <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I'm currently setting up  a new environment (CMS) for the authors-team, 
>>> that work on
>>> the user guides for OOo and LO. They use currently Plone 3.3.x and I'll 
>>> update it to
>>> Plone 4.0.x. The new environment will run on a resource of the Document 
>>> Foundation. I
>>> hope to finish the customization of the new environment (and the move of 
>>> the content
>>> of the current Plone instance) up to the middle of the next month.
[...]

> I think I missed the conversation about having a Plone trial, can
> someone point me to that conversation.
> I have heard great things about Plone, very powerful and fast content
> management framework, but as I understand it there is a lot of custom
> coding involved.
>
> Did the original conversation about Plone discuss how we would
> implement the workflow?
> Having the discussions with Jean early on regarding the
> infrastructure, I was under the understanding that the instance of
> Plone setup on OOoAuthors did not have a structured workflow, but
> rather folders with permissions.
> The discussions we have had so far is pointing towards structured
> cross-language collaboration, so as we have discussed previously, the
> tooling should meet the workflow needs rather than the other way
> around.
>
> I am very keen to see Alfresco up and running, as we have discussed a
> few times. The Alfresco framework ties in very well with Drupal and
> together they provide an incredibly powerful document management
> system. I think someone pointed out the limitation of cross-language
> collaboration (I might be wrong here, I have not personally had
> experience with Alfresco in a multi-language environment).
>
> Also, might I suggest that we refrain from using the TDF servers as a
> testing ground as this may lead to a misconception that we have
> decided on using the tool for the documentation workflow. The
> intermediate workflow, on the wiki, as discussed seems to be working
> quite well at the moment, albeit without permissions.

The installation of Plone has nothing to do with what we choose for
the documentation of LibO. OOoAuthors has accepted the offer from TDF
to move to the TDF server. So this does not mean, that any decision
about the tools we use is already made.

We're free to use the tool we think is best.

Sigrid

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