Re: implication of removing portal_skins

On 04/07/2013, at 5:50 AM, Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Jul 3, 2013, at 20:42, Nathan Van Gheem <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Just because we say we want to focus on one sector does not mean to abandon the other.
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> 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.
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> 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.

I feel plone should be aiming the opposite way. The 500 small sites in
a single instance. One of planes most unique aspects is its ability to
do a lot as saas. It has the best hope of attracting more people to
plone. We should build in this ability.

I totally agree with wichert that defining our audience and focusing is key.

The problem with my above statements is plones current users aren't
who I'm saying its future users should be.


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> Wichert.
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