"Jon Stahl" <[email protected]> writes: >> 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 like that idea. We, as developers, may be liable to miss the target when trying to address community impact without such direction. > 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'd like to hear about how wide interest in this might be. Anyone? > 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." ;-) East coast... summer... Ugh. :) The Californian, Ross _______________________________________________ Framework-Team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/framework-team
