On 5/24/11 10:19 PM, Jon Stahl wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Alex Clark<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
On 5/24/11 10:09 PM, Jon Stahl wrote:
Alex-
You should look back at the great work Veda Williams did on "OOTB
Plone Themes" for Plone 3. Different technology, different details,
but the *process* she used was fantastic, particularly with regard to
QA. http://www.coactivate.org/projects/ootb-plone-themes/project-home
I'll take a look, thanks! Maybe we can use the new JIRA stuff to bootstrap a
Plone themes project.
That would be a great use of JIRA, IMHO. Fair warning: Veda put a
*lot* of work into coaching/mentoring/cat-hearding people during the
OOTB project.
I suspect we can re-herd a lot of those folks. (Side note: It's really a
shame what happened to coactivate, it's basically unusable at this point.)
I've been thinking about this a lot lately in the
context of Diazo. I think a big difference between now and then is
that there are some good open-source themes available, but it will
probably take some thought/evaluation to identify ones that are really
worth adapting.
It's not just that there are good open source themes available, it's
that they are now "cheap" to produce (via diazo, p.a.theming) and
distribute (via p.a.theming, p.resource). I think this may quite
literally blow the lid off the Plone theming story. The "expensive" part
now falls squarely on the graphic designers and HTML/CSS/JS folk, where
it should be. (Even more so if the Plone editing UI gets an overhaul, as
is being discussed.)
I'm going to coral folks in #plonetheme on Freenode (where Veda held a
few sprints, it looks like).
Alex
:jon
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