Re: implication of removing portal_skins

For the record, I tend to side with TTW configurable being an anti-goal and it is something I only rarely use and even then only temporarily. But we run 100+ portals on the same Zope instance. They just have very different user groups and content but I want all configuration in code so it can be versioned/etc for the sake of stability. I don't understand why TTW configurable is being conflated with running multiple websites - if you are just trying to make a point about design decisions that seems an awkward one since it's about 10 years too late.

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Wichert Akkerman [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 3:50 PM
To: Nathan Van Gheem
Cc: Plone Developers
Subject: Re: [Plone-developers] implication of removing portal_skins


On Jul 3, 2013, at 20:42, Nathan Van Gheem <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just because we say we want to focus on one sector does not mean to abandon the other.

Sometimes goals are just not compatible. For example I strongly feel that a Zope instance should only run a single website and that configuration should be in configuration files and not in databases, which is why I dropped all use of plone.registry, ZMI properties, local component registries, etc. in favour of z3c.appconfig. That allowed me to make things a lot simpler and manageable by normal admins without any Zope knowledge, but I had to abandon other things.

My main point is that you need to have a single target audience in mind for all roadmap decisions, and I feel that that has been missing so far. Which customisation options make sense will depend strongly in your target audience. For enterprise-style usage TTW configurable is probably a strong anti-goal, while it would be very important for people who run 500 simple sites in a single instance. So depending on who you want to cater to you will need to make different design decisions.

Wichert.
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