Initial buildout doc proposed/looking for collaboration
cjj <[email protected]>
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Hi all, I was recently testing Plone 4 (a3) and walking through the process that hopefully a new person would be seeing. One of the things I noticed is that after I get it installed, there is a link to how to find out how to customize the buildout (in the README.txt in zinstances after UI finishes). It says: Customizing the installation ---------------------------- You may control most aspects of your installation, including changing ports and adding new packages and products by editing the buildout.cfg file in your instance home at /home/cjohnson/Plone/zinstance. See Martin Aspelli's excellent tutorial "Managing projects with zc.buildout":http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/buildout for information on buildout options. Apply settings by running bin/buildout in your instance directory. While that is a great tutorial, I have tried to use it a few times and found it rather un-newbie-friendly and instead more oriented towards developers managing a project using buildout. I was thinking to propose a HowTo (customize your new buildout) that we could point to in initial documentation. I attempted to write something along those lines based on my experience helping a friend after install with UI, which has been one of my more popular posts over the course of the year (see http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/after-plone-installe/ and really the helpful part I forgot to include and put in the comment!). What do others think? If there is support for the idea, I'm willing to contribute what I know, but that's not going to be enough because I don't use Windows (and haven't for almost a decade), and nor do I use Mac (though Linux knowledge proved enough to muddle through the experience). So if I can get some help, I'm game :) Anyway, hope all of you are well and having a great holiday season with lots of merriment! Best wishes, Chris -- ifPeople www.ifpeople.net t: 678-608-3408 -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Initial-buildout-doc-proposed-looking-for-collaboration-tp4226137p4226137.html Sent from the Documentation Team mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev