Dylan Jay wrote:
Gilles Lenfant wrote:
And the learning curve of Python + Zope2/3 + Plone is about 6 months
for a good newbie. And Plone 3 added about 1 month to that learning
curve - compared with Plone 2.
I think that one of the goals for Plone 4 (5?) should be to cut this
learning curve to 4 months, this should really attract more people to
Plone.
Yep. It would be great when skins and form controllers and python
scripts never have to be learnt or considered.
So, what would be considered? XML and ZCML? Are we still talking about
how to "win the battle for developers"? Developers tend to like to code :)
We have a big application stack. Making easier to extend Plone without
the need to learn the the whole underlying technology is good, but only
as a starting point. Developers eventually need to understand the magic
behind-the-scenes. And the more we hide it, the more magic and hard it
will look like.
Plones high learning curve is caused by too much choice of ways to do
things IMO. We need 1 or 2 ways of doing things at most. and if there
is more than one way they need to have a very clear reason why and
when you use one or the othe?
This is true. For example, CMF skin layers vs browser resources, views
and layers is causing lots of confusion for newbies.
But that's caused by one of the characteristics I love most about the
Zope/Plone world: the unstoppable technology improvements that make the
code base bleeding-edge all the time. If we hadn't made the move for z3
style code, for example, we would still be only using old z2 style
products, with no benefits from the z3 component architecture, and plone
would probably be dying, while some other projects would be rising on
top of zope3...
On the other side, we must ensure backward compatibility with the
old-style code in a sensible way (IMHO, a software project can't be more
disrespectful with its users then when it breaks compatibility with
older versions).
Don't get me wrong. I agree we need to make Plone more attractive for
new developers. We just should be aware that some of the aspects that
make Plone difficult/complex are motivated by some of the principles
that drive the community and its development approach.
Ricardo
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Eurotux <http://www.eurotux.com>
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