GNOME Web / Plone team - Meeting Minutes 11MAY09

Agenda:

1. CMS (Plone status)
2. Design
3. Release plan

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)

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

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)

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)