Re: implication of removing portal_skins

On Jul 3, 2013, at 20:17, Nathan Van Gheem <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Kim Nguyen is wanting to take up the effort of making sure we fill the functionality hole correctly when we remove the use of portal_skins in Plone 5.
> 
> He, and many others, are concerned that doing quick edits on functionality in plone will become very difficult with the removal of portal_skins. When managing MANY sites, as he does, being able to do quick edits through the ZMI is very important to the power of Plone and his deployment.

I think your first step is identifying who the target audience for Plone is. The last time we did such an exercise  we concluded that Plone is targeted towards larger more complex sites, and the many-small-sites-in-a-single-instance was not compatible with and should not hold anything back. I get the impression that the there are currently still too many opinions on what exactly Plone's target audience is, with the result that progress is very slow to impossible since too many people want/need too many different things. Making a clear decision will mean alienating part of the current audience, but I feel that is a necessary step that needs to be taken at some point.

Wichert.



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