Great update, Patrick. Thanks. --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors ------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Patrick W. Barnes wrote: > On Monday 24 July 2006 11:07, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > -- > Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes > nman64@xxxxxxxxx > > http://www.n-man.com/ > > LinkedIn: > http://www.linkedin.com/in/nman64 > > Have I been helpful? Rate my assistance! > http://rate.affero.net/nman64/ > -- > >
