Progress of migration to plone? IRC meeting suggestion

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

Great update, Patrick.  Thanks.

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On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Patrick W. Barnes wrote:

> On Monday 24 July 2006 11:07, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:
> > /me is still a bit uncertain about the goals of the plone migration.
> >
> > What is it that we need in a website, exactly, that the wiki at fp.o isn't
> > giving us?
> >
> > It seems like maybe the reason we're not seeing Plone's progress is
> > because it's not on the front burner, for whatever reason.
> >
> > The standard disclaimer: as always, I could be completely wrong.
> >
> 
> I think you've pretty much hit the nail on the head.  Since the wiki has been 
> doing so well for us, nobody is in a huge hurry to make the Plone site 
> happen.  That's not to say that we don't want the Plone site.  It will still 
> provide many advantages that we want or need.  Progress continues to happen, 
> and the effort certainly hasn't been forgotten.
> 
> Right now, the first item on the Plone to-do list is an upgrade to our Zope 
> and Plone installations.  We want to move to a newer version of Plone that 
> supports more advanced authentication features.  We'll most likely be trying 
> to integrate Plone with our upcoming Account System rewrite using those 
> authentication features.  This is in the Infrastructure team's ballpark, and 
> we'll be getting help from Jon Steffan, who has helped Fedora Unity put 
> together a similar setup.  When we first started on this idea, Jon had 
> packaged the new versions for Unity, but they weren't in Fedora Extras.  
> Thanks to Jon and Aurelian Bompard, the new versions are now in Fedora 
> Extras.
> 
> The current blockers for that item are as follows:
> 
> 1.  The platform currently installed on fpserv (the Plone site), CentOS, is 
> not running a recent-enough version of Python to handle the new Zope version.  
> The new Plone version requires the new Zope version.  We'll either have to 
> upgrade Python or the entire system to something more recent.  If we move the 
> system to Fedora Core 5, we'll be able to install the new Zope and Plone 
> versions from Fedora Extras.  We're just not sure that Fedora is right for 
> these servers due to its short lifecycle.
> 
> 2.  We'll have to handle some of the planning for the new Account System to 
> make sure that the Plone authentication will be compatible.  The 
> Infrastructure team has to decide whether it will be using SQL or LDAP as the 
> storage backend for the new system, and a compatible schema will have to be 
> created for that backend.  In theory, we could put something together that 
> works for now and make revisions for compatibility later, but we might save 
> ourselves some hassle by doing a little planning first.
> 
> We plan to keep the PloneToDo page up-to-date as further developments come 
> along.  We haven't set target dates for some of these tasks since they are 
> often dependent upon the work of others.  Rest assured that we're staying on 
> top of this.
> 
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