> Ross Patterson <[email protected]> writes: > > > So far, much of the Plone 4 work has happened in narrower circles to > > free it up for prototyping, visioning, and imagining new approaches. > > This has been in part to isolate such a process from the paralysis > > that can come from discussion of edge cases or disagreements which are > > more proper and valuable at a later stage. I raised a concern that as > > we start presenting this work more publicly, we should think about > > communicating and setting expectations for the impact of the backwards > > incompatible changes
FWIW, Joel Burton raised some concerns along these lines as well when I spoke to him a couple of weeks ago. We hashed around the idea (which I've also spoken of with Alex) of actually doing some sort of in-person "focus group" style event, where the P4 FWT could present some of the work-in-progress on Plone 4 (e.g. deliverance, dexterity, deco) to a small panel of selected community members (e.g. trusted "typical integrator" types) to get feedback not only on what we need to improve/document better but also how we should go about best explaining/framing the changes so they don't cause undue alarm. I would be willing to do some work to help organize such an event, and I would not at all be surprised if the Foundation were willing to provide some underwriting (e.g. buy some plane tickets) but of course it is the participation/leadership of the FWT that would be the key to making it happen. I could imagine this event, with fewer than 20 people, happening on the east coast USA sometime this summer (much depends on code readiness, I suppose). One might potentially define this as a spiritual successor to the 2008 PSPS event, but I would avoid using the terms "strategic" "planning" or "summit" to describe it. Maybe a "Plone 4 Framing Workshop." ;-) $0.02, jon _______________________________________________ Framework-Team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/framework-team
