Re: Improving portals block [was: Re: [VOTE] Status of Portal blocks]

2004-08-26 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Carsten Ziegeler wrote: Ralph Goers wrote: 1. The old portal contains at least a minimal amount of portal administration functionality. The new portal contains nothing. Unfortunately this is true, but I'm really sure that soon some tools for the new portal will appear and with a little

RE: Improving portals block [was: Re: [VOTE] Status of Portal blocks]

2004-08-26 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Sylvain Wallez wrote: Mmmh... I'm not sure the scratch an itch pattern applies to docs. With code, you start scratching because you need a new feature, and since you need to write that new feature for your own need, you can with not much additional cost share it with others. With

Re: Improving portals block [was: Re: [VOTE] Status of Portal blocks]

2004-08-26 Thread Ralph Goers
Carsten Ziegeler said: Now, let me give the dumb open source answer (this is not targetted at you, Ralph). Cocoon and the portal block are open source. So, if something is missing or not the way you like it etc., you can change it. This is usually how open source works: someone has an itch