On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:48:40 +0100, robert rottermann wrote: > Rob, > > we are in the midst off creating a Zope/Plone structure for a cluster of > Universities here in Switzerland. > I have been using CMF-Member in a number of sites and have never been > happy with it. This stems mainly from the fact that I used a very early > version for which no clean upgrade path ever existed.
urgh. :-(. it's improved considerably since early incarnations, but it's still quite a beast. > I really would like to propose to use membrane for this project (and its > many subprojects). > > The target release date for the sites is mid 2006. Now my question: > > Do you expect membrane to be in a solid state by then? We would of course > be contributing as much as we can and the project would be a perfect > testbed. i can't make promises, of course, but this is quite reasonable. if i'm the only person who touches it, it may or may not happen. but if a small handful of other folks get involved and help with the efforts to improve it, i think this would be no problem. > However I need a strategy how we could go live in mid 2006 without using > membrane . (and without redoing to much). > > We (probably) will be using Zope 2.9x and Plone 2.1x. There will be a > cluster of Zope sites/subsites but all of them should be using a shared > user management system. > > I really would like to hear your oppinion. if Membrane weren't ready you could probably accomplish what you want just using PAS and your own plug-ins. of course even better would be for you to help with the Membrane efforts. :-). -r _______________________________________________ Zope-CMF maillist - Zope-CMF@lists.zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-cmf See http://collector.zope.org/CMF for bug reports and feature requests