On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 21:37 -0700, Jon Stahl wrote: > Hi Dylan! > > I think this is a great start, and a very useful effort. It resonates > strongly with the documentation team's idea of "trails" that lead you to > the key resources for each major topic.
Yes, definitely a +1 I've joined up and encourage everyone else to add their 2c/euros to the list on the project-home. Thanks, Tim > > :jon > > Dylan Jay wrote: > > > > > > Hi Guys > > > > Following on from the "Where does it hurt?" discussion. I've come up > > with an idea that I think could help reduce the learning curve but I > > need your help. > > > > I've created a Plone Developers Cheatsheet. > > http://www.openplans.org/projects/plonecheatsheet > > > > The idea is a complete list of what you need to learn reduced down to > > just best practice, not the extraneous stuff. > > > > It's an open project and I like you all to be the first members and help > > get it to a suitably complete state that we can link it from plone.org > > documentation. It's very empty right now. Please be the first add and > > edit. > > > > It's my hope that it becomes useful enough to each of us for keeping > > tabs on what what is best practice and whats the current best tutorial > > for something. At the same time remains simple enough to help guide a > > newbie developer into plone. > > > > I fully expect that some decisions on what is best practice will be > > controversial. Hopefully this is a good place to record the results of > > those debates and perhaps the associated mailing list is good place to > > have those debates. or on here. > > > > Also you can be brutally honest and tell me if you think this won't work > > and why. > > > > Dylan. > > > > Martin Aspeli wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > Following a long discussion with Dylan Jay (buried in another thread on > > > Devilstick terminology), I thought I'd conduct an informal poll. > > > > > > ==> As a customiser of Plone, or as someone wanting to build bespoke > > > components that extend Plone, what do you find most confusing? > > > > > > I think this could fall into a few categories: > > > > > > - Areas where there's insufficient/poor documentation, but once you > > > learn how to do something, it's clear how to proceed. > > > > > > - Areas where there appears to be more than one approach, and it's not > > > clear which one to choose > > > > > > - Areas where Plone doesn't appear to have a good way to do something > > > > > > Please keep replies as succinct and factual as possible. I'm really not > > > interested in a winge fest by people who've been frustrated in the past. > > > I'd much rather have constructive feedback on where the pain is and, if > > > possible, suggestions for how to improve things. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Martin > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Product-Developers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers
