Re: GSoC Idea : A new Plone message board

Thanks.
I'll start working and get back to you soon.

Aman Arora


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Timo Stollenwerk <tisto-z4DKO/[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Aman,
>
> sorry for not replying sooner, I was on a vacation. I'm glad to hear
> that you are interested in that topic!
>
> Am 02.03.2014 19:56, schrieb Aman Arora:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am interested in this idea as well and want to know more about it.
> > I have the skills required for it. I am good with Python, HTML, JS and
> > as was suggested to me for another project idea (Better helper packages
> > for the security team) I went through the documentation for dexterity
> > content types, tried using it and now have a basic knowledge about it.
> > Also I am ready to learn new technologies.
> >
> > I cloned the repository mentioned :
> > https://github.com/tisto/collective.ploneboard
> > also the product : http://plone.org/products/ploneboard
> >
> > Setting up of product is done. I used Ploneboard. Tried it by making a
> > simple forum. I found it cool. Its great for users as they can make a
> > forum/chat/message board very easily.
>
> The general idea is to re-write the functionality of Products.Ploneboard
> from the scratch in collective.ploneboard. In 2009 I did a GSoC
> implementing a new commenting infrastructure for Plone and we would like
> to build the new collective.ploneboard implementation on top of that (as
> well as on top of our new content type framework Dexterity).
>
> > I want to know more about the idea, as well as the implementation part.
> > It would be great if Timo Stollenwerk and other developers can guide me
> > for the project as well as help me understand the proof-of-concept
> > implementation which has been done :
> > https://github.com/tisto/collective.ploneboard .
>
> I just fixed the buildout. Just do:
>
> git clone https://github.com/tisto/collective.ploneboard.git
> cd collective.ploneboard
> python bootstrap.py
> bin/buildout
>
> With that in place, you can run the tests with:
>
> bin/test
>
> or start the instance with:
>
> bin/instance fg
>
> > I want to know how I should start working for it. As in what the project
> > wants and the guidelines for it to be done. As mentioned in the ideas
> > page, I want to know about the "current best practices" and "use the
> > latest technology" which needs to be done.
>
> 1) Have a look at Products.Ploneboard and write down what
> functionalities it provides. If you are familiar with agile development
> methodologies, I would suggest that you write down some user stories in
> a simple spreadsheet. You can start to extend the four user stories I
> already implemented for the prototype:
>
> https://github.com/tisto/collective.ploneboard/blob/master/TUTORIAL.txt#L69
>
> 2) Familiarize yourself with Dexterity, this is the content type
> framework that we should use to implement the basic message board
> content types:
>
>
> http://developer.plone.org/reference_manuals/external/plone.app.dexterity/index.html
>
> The prototype has been implemented with Dexterity, so you might want to
> have a look at the code as well:
>
> https://github.com/tisto/collective.ploneboard/
>
> 3) Familiarize yourself with plone.app.discussion, this is the
> commenting framework that we should use for the actual discussion items
> (replies):
>
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.app.discussion/2.3.1
> http://pythonhosted.org/plone.app.discussion/
> https://github.com/plone/plone.app.discussion
>
> 4) Have a look at my implementation of the prototype, especially at the
> unit/integration tests that I wrote:
>
>
> https://github.com/tisto/collective.ploneboard/tree/master/src/collective/ploneboard/tests
>
> It would help a lot if you could familiarize yourself with
> plone.app.testing (the Plone testing framework):
>
>
> http://developer.plone.org/reference_manuals/external/plone.app.dexterity/testing/index.html
>
> > Looking forward for guidance to help me make a good proposal as well as
> > do good work.
>
> For a good proposal it is important that you come up with a detailed
> plan of what you want to accomplish during the three months. If you need
> help with that, feel free to write me an email or ping me on IRC
> (username: tisto).
>
> Cheers,
> Timo
>

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