Re: SilvaNews-1.0 bugs/questions

Andy wrote:

>Hi Devs,
>(actually Silva News developers)
>
>Been playing around with SilvaNews-1.0 a bit, and I've noticed two bugs:
>1) You can't add a "Silva News Publication" through the ZMI.  Not a big deal, 
>but the option is there.
>  
>
To be honest the reason the item is in the add list is most probably 
because Zope just does that, if you register a content type to Zope 
there is (afaik) no common way to make it not appear in that list. 
However, you should never add a Silva content type through the SMI 
(read: a content type that you can add in the SMI too) since it may not 
get properly registered to Silva that way.

>2) I am unable to add "Silva Folders" or "Silva Publications" underneath a 
>news publication.  I get an error: AttributeError: is_version_published (tb 
>at end of email).  Using zope 2.7.2-0 and silva-1.1
>
>  
>
That's a bug, I'll fix it in the next release. Contrary to what Marc 
Petitmermet says, this will be the way to structure news publications 
for now, perhaps we may want to think it over later.

>Also, I'm wondering what your thoughts are on how to managing the target 
>audiences and subjects in large news systems.
>
<...>

I think your ideas on improving the system are quite interesting, and if 
you're willing to contribute changes I would definitely take them into 
consideration, but I would like to ask you something first: how do you 
like the setup of the product?
The reason why I'm asking this is that most people seem to think 
SilvaNews is overly complex, the current setup may allow filtering but 
it looks like users don't easily get a grip on it and it has been 
suggested to take a completely different, far simpler approach a couple 
of times. What's your thought on this?

Cheers,

Guido