Working on the PHC product

Hello list,

I've recently had a look at the list of open issues for the Plone Help 
Center 
(http://plone.org/products/plonehelpcenter/issues/poi_issue_search?state=unconfirmed&state=open&state=in-progress). 
The list is quite long, but I would expect some of the reported issues 
to be old ones that have been fixed or work-arounded in recent PHC versions.

Anyway, being PHC a core component of plone.org, I think we need to 
spend some time on it. The product is quite old and has been refactored 
at least once (by Steve McMahon) to make it more Plone 3 ready.

I know that Alex Clark is eager to upgrade plone.org to Plone 4 not very 
late (the previous upgrade to Plone 3 took place quite late after it was 
released). So I think we have two options:

a) Go through the bug tracker and try to fix the current important open 
issues. Upgrade the code to be compatible with Plone 4 (I've already 
done most of the work in a branch).

b) Refactor the whole PHC again, rewriting it from scratch to be as 
light-weight as possible and Plone 4 compatible. The migration could be 
accomplished using transmogrifier. I guess Rok Garbas could help us 
here. This would need several weeks this summer, and lots of testing.

What do you think is best?

-- israel


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