Hi,
On 5/25/11 11:52 AM, Alex Clark wrote:
Hi,
On 5/24/11 11:05 PM, Alex Clark wrote:
On 5/24/11 10:42 PM, Alex Clark wrote:
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).
Done: http://projects.plone.org/browse/OOTBT
And I've created the first "epic" issue:
http://projects.plone.org/browse/OOTBT-1. I will create other smaller
issues based on this "epic" issue shortly. (I came up w/12 points per
theme, but I'm not sure that is a good estimate, as I've no idea what
I'm doing really).
Right now, I'm planning to do a half dozen of these themes by the end of
the month, and davi-lima and toutpt are each doing one so that gives us
8/12. We need a few more volunteers in order to be able to reach 12
themes by the end of the month :-).
And… it's the end of the month, and we have pushed just over half our
goal[1]! Pretty impressive:
- http://plone.org/products/plonetheme.grungeera
- http://plone.org/products/plonetheme.freshpick
- http://plone.org/products/plonetheme.coolblue
- http://plone.org/products/plonetheme.earthlingtwo
- http://plone.org/products/plonetheme.flowerbuds
- http://plone.org/products/plonetheme.unilluminated
All with zips included for easy installation from the 'Diazo theme'
control panel. The best of these are clearly:
- http://plone.org/products/plonetheme.earthlingtwo
- http://plone.org/products/plonetheme.flowerbuds
(Thanks Red Turtle and Makina Corpus!)
My themes all need a bit of rule clean up, if anyone would like to help
you can get them all with this buildout:
-
https://github.com/aclark4life/diazo-theming-sprint/blob/master/buildout.cfg
I will poke at this project in June 2011 to see if we can get another
half dozen published by the end of the month. We have folks signed up to
contribute them! All we need to do is finish. :-)
Alex
[1] https://github.com/collective/plonetheme.keepitsimple already exists
as an old style theme so it can't be published yet. Anyone know anyone
from Mentes?
Alex
Alex
:jon
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