discuss: Lampadas planning session
Subject:
Re: Lampadas planning session
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
16 Jun 2003 03:45:33 -0000
Message-Id: <BB12B50C.80A%dmerrill@ibiblio.org>
On 6/15/03 20:04, "David Lawyer" ####@####.#### wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 05:32:08AM -0400, David Merrill wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Shall we hold an IRC discussion about Lampadas development plans? We need to
>> discuss 1) Plone work, 2) a possible resurrection of the old Lampadas
>> mod_python code but with a much more limited scope, 3) any other concerns
>> you have.
>>
>> Who is interested and what time are you available Sunday, or next weekend?
>
> I'm concerned about what to do about authors that no longer have time to
> adequately maintain their document(s). Lampadas needs to allow them to
> ask for help, or request that someone else take over the doc. In
> addition, I think we need to warn authors to be selective on who they
> allow to take over their doc. In one case I've looked at, it seems that
> the new maintainer only made the document worse, rather than improved on
> it.
That seems outside the scope to me.
>> If we can't arrange a time the interested people can meet, we will have to
>> do it by email, which will take longer.
>
> But email allows more thought in responses and IMO is a good way to
> communicate.
Email is fine with me.
> Another point is that I think we should suggest to new volunteers that
> helping with Lampadas is a possibility (provided that the volunteer has
> done some programming in the past). I think that Tabatha did this once
> but Guylhem didn't think it a good idea. Since David M. can't spend
> much time on it now, we definitely need more help with lampadas.
Yep, if you want it any time soon.
BTW, I tonight I finished my first draft of DocBook XML support in CMF. I
can now upload an XML file into a CMF document, or just enter valid DocBook.
There are several outstanding issues but it is basically working.
Because adding new "raw" formats is bothersome (and involves 5 source
files), I'm thinking about modifying CMF to use a plugin system for raw
content. Then it will be much easier to add Texinfo and any other format we
want with minimal disruption to CMF -- and they can even be release
independently of it. I'll be submitting my current work to the CMF folks for
their feedback in a couple of weeks, when the code is cleaned up a bit.
So you see I *am* making progress. Just slow progress. :-)
--
David Merrill
dmerrill at ibiblio.org
http://www.lupercalia.net
