Re: What I'd like to see gsoc achieve: plone distributions

On 28 Mar 2015 01:59, "Asko Soukka" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Dylan Jay <djay-n0pU0XVUApFWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> kirjoitti 27.3.2015 kello 11.47:
> >> I figure the simplest way is to use GS but store it in
portal_resources inside the theme in a profiles folder.
>
> This probably should be implemented into p.a.themingplugins (if it's not
a problem that themingplugins has dependency on jbot, which would be
unnecessary for this):
>

I'd prefer not to see it in themingplugins as I don't agree with
encouraging jbot use as it discourages the use of a proper api and instead
makes hacking the core the recommended way to customise a site. Besides its
a change unrelated to jbot or ttw coding so why conflate it?

Personally, if others agree this is a good way forward, I'd prefer to see
it in the core since it adds an extra burden to theme developers to get
someone to install this plugin before their theme will properly work.
Otherwise c.themesitesetup?

> - a button into theme-editor to create a new GS-export into theme's
resource directory (it's done by using GS' tarball export API, opening the
tarball and dumping its contents into theme resource directory)
>
> - GS step filter might be unnecessary, because it's easy enough to delete
extra steps afterward (only downside is the expensive structure export
step, but I understood that this would be used mostly only during
development phase)
>
> - enabling theme would import its profile (pretty trivial to do into
p.a.themingplugins: steps from resource directory should be wrapped into a
tarball and tarball fed to GS import API)
>
> But should there be support for uninstalling the profile imported during
a theme activation? And if so, would it be good enough to run GS implicit
"magical" uninstall, or should an explicit uninstall profile be supported?
>

I suppose it should mirror fs GS as much as possible since that is well
supported and documented including uninstall profiles and possibly someway
to support upgrade profiles? Do zip themes even have version numbers now?

> >> You can have a control panel to snapshot the current site and that
could include filters to only include the "right" kinds of GS steps. There
is GS for creating content using plone.rfc822 now but not for saving
content to GS I believe. The format kind of sucks and it only handles
certain content types so is not universal.
>
> When it's not universal? AFAIK it emulates DAV PUT, which should be
universal. There might be limitations for Archetypes (e.g. only one primary
field per content item), but DX content uses the new plone.rfc822, which is
can be extended for custom field types. (I have experimental plone.rfc822
adapters for Archetypes', but it's long shot to merge those into
Archetypes).
>

As in it only works for AT and DX. Might not work for things like Plomino
databases but I guess that can be lived with or data stored in annotations.

> That said, generic import support is not trivial and any solution
skipping plone.rfc822 seems like reinventing the wheel and wasting a lot of
work.
>
> > or the sharing/publishing can be done via asko's existing git
integration - https://github.com/collective/collective.gitresource
> > Configure a github repo. Click push.
>
> One more project needing the last 10% push :+)
>
> >> Most of that I think is doable in a sprint or GSOC.
>
> Sprint yes. GSOC with a "new to Plone" student would require a really
dedicated mentor (who probably could do that by himself with all the time
required to mentor).
>
> Regards,
> Asko

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