[Z3lab] portal specifications

Martijn Faassen faassen at infrae.com
Fri May 13 20:35:25 CEST 2005


Julien Anguenot wrote:
[snip]
> Find below a proposal for the portal :

[snip long list]

I am somewhat worried that doing all of this now will spread the content 
too thin. I.e. that there will be so many areas but with little actual 
content, so that someone visiting the site can click around a lot and 
not get to the meat quickly enough. This is not a good impression.

Could we focus initially on getting the content in a few limited places 
and see what shape it takes, then broaden out? I'm not saying this to 
limit technical requirements, for those who have followed the previous 
discussion. :)

Concerning design content, we seem to have the following kinds of artifacts:

* mailing list.

* images, such as graphs and the like.

* textual documents.

* perhaps output of some design tools such as UML

We may also be able to pull in content by aggregrating in blogs from 
various people. Anything I'm missing?

I myself tend to prefer restructured text documents in a svn repository 
for lightweight design that's tied in with code, as that is easy to 
edit, diff and version control, and easily accessible developers. Having 
the other artifacts near that makes it easier to manage. The advantage 
is that it's simple and that most people involved already know to deal 
with this.

As for the website, my personal preference would be that we see this as 
a publication medium primarily and not as a collaboration medium. We 
could for instance use CPS for publishing "finished" design content to 
the web for public consumption and the like, and to draw new people into 
the project.

The alternative which I think is presented is to use the collaboration 
features of CPS to do this. I myself do not have a lot of experience 
with these. What do others think?

Regards,

Martijn


More information about the Z3lab mailing list
More information about CPS: CPS project - CVS - API

Hosting: Nuxeo: Zope service provider


This list archive provided by Nuxeo, the leaders of open source ECM. Check out the Nuxeo 5 open source, standards-based ECM project.