1. GNOME Web / Plone team - Meeting Minutes 11MAY09
1.1. Agenda:
- CMS (Plone status)
- Design
- Release plan
1.1.1. CMS / Plone status
Discussion goals:
- What's the current status of Plone implementation
- How much effort is needed to finish it
- Honest opinion from current volunteers working on it
Status update (Carsten Senger)
Test site at http://gnome.rehfisch.de/
- Theme is mostly working (estimated that it would take 2 theme developers 4 weeks to finish it)
- Front page infrastructure (banner, feeds)
- Infrastructure for navigation, sitemap and right hand side banners is complete
Documentation
- Documentation on implementation and maintenance needs to be created
- (Lucas) Site documentation is a requirement (Should be documented enough that somone with Plone experience can pick up where others left off)
il8n
- il8n tools and workflow need to be documented
Using LinguaPlone with xml2po and xliff should be able to create translations similar to the GNOME workflow
- The GNOME Plone implementation is setup and ready once the tools and process are documented
- jensens to estimate the work / time needed to implement il8n
GNOME Plone Maintenance
- Create a GNOME internal team dedicated to maintaining GNOME's Plone implementation
- Help integrate Plone community members volunteering on GNOME's implementation to feel a part of the GNOME community
- Try and integrate with GNOME marketing team, art and sysadmin members
- If team member needs to leave, try to help find a replacement to keep the community going
- 4 volunteers to join team (Carsten Senger, jensens, bloodbare, thetet)
- Lucas to discuss with the Foundation Board
Team estimated it would take 4-5 weeks, later in the meeting 8 weeks, to get site into a usable beta state, focusing on CSS fixes (excluding il8n)
1.2. Design
New theme has been mocked up by Art team (http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/184285/gnome.org/front.png)
- Per the Plone team, implemementing CSS with this look should not be difficult
- Within Plone, it is possible to have subtle variations of the theme on different sub-pages of the site
- Agreed to stop working on the current test site's theme, and focus efforts on getting new theme designed and finished
- Design team to think about git.gnome.org, live.gnome.org and library.gnome.org (Phase 2?) (Add to Bugzilla?)
Summary:
- Teams working in parallel
- Plone implmementation: Develop fully working site with final content, but is ugly
- Design team: Deliver the new site design with HTML / CSS
- Teams collaborate to finish
6-8 weeks to finalize Plone work, 8 weeks after that for CSS / theme work, launch with 2.28
1.3. Release Plan:
Tie to 2.28 (http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyseven)
- Lucas to send a more detailed recommendation plan via email by May 16th
- Following Lucas' email, Lucas and / or Paul to coordinate with Carsten and develop milestones and tasks tied to the release calendar
- Beta design proposal to be completed in 4 weeks (June 10th)
1.4. Outstanding Action Items:
- Discuss itemizing contenttype views on mailing list
- Create tasklists of the remaining work to be completed
- Discuss hosting needs and deployment plan with Sysadmin team
- Need to develop requirements for hosting podcasts / audio and / or video
Review Content and clean up where needed (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/NewWgoStructure) (Paul to reach out to Quim)