Saturday in Paris
Today was my first day actually at the Plone 3 Paris sprint – last night I got here just in time to go to the pub. This morning I was looking over MrTopf’s plone.app.localconf code which uses Five sitemanagers to store configuration of subsections of a site as local adapters with the intention of having local configlets to allow people to reconfigure parts of their site.
This fits in quite well with collective.sectionsubskin: my product that allows for variable interpolation into CSS via marker interfaces on folders. It seems it should be possible to use PersistantDict based local utilities or just references to .props files to implement the same functionality with localconf. It would be great if CSSManager could be integrated with this, allowing users to go to a local CSS Manager to modify the appearace of folders or even individual content items. Which would be nice.
Then, after a lovely pizza and glass of rosé with the sun beating down on us we went for a group photo in the park. And got lost. After that cerfuffle I moved onto working with PloneSoftwareCenter with Tarek, specifically allowing multiple related eggs to be grouped into the same PSCProject so eggs that are conceptually just supporting products for a larger project won’t crowd the listings. This obviously had to work with the new PyPI support so new eggs that are added are put in the correct place. I spent most of the afternoon working on making sure that two projects couldn’t claim responsibility over one egg.
What keeps catching my eye is the Misty theme that DaftDog et al are working on, whenever I walk past their laptops there’s something pretty on screen. Buildbot support in buildouts was also mentioned, but I had zoned out a bit so don’t know exactly what was going on, but the concept of a buildbot recipe is pretty cool, I’ll look into that later.
There’s so much going on I’ll leave it to the other participants to blog about what they’re doing; it’s almost time for the pub.
