18 Things I Wish Were True About Plone

[Matthew Wilkes]

On Heisei 0020-02-10, at 221725GMT, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> I don't agree. Plone is a CMS: it is great at managing contentish
> things. It is extensible which allows you to make it do some other
> things as well, but in the end it is a CMS. It should not be a  
> computing
> fabric, it should not do unified communications and it is not a web
> platform. The fact that Gartner lists something as important does not
> mean that Plone has to do that. Social networking falls firmly in that
> category in my opinion.

I agree, that said I've done lots of plone sites with social  
networking components and will do again in future.  It's the vogue at  
the moment, simple sites want to allow user-generated content to  
appear and for those users to contact each other.  It's important that  
we don't build ourselves into a corner so these things aren't possible  
but it's not something for core.

Matt

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[Christian Scholz-2]

Hi!

Matthew Wilkes wrote:

> On Heisei 0020-02-10, at 221725GMT, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
>> I don't agree. Plone is a CMS: it is great at managing contentish
>> things. It is extensible which allows you to make it do some other
>> things as well, but in the end it is a CMS. It should not be a  
>> computing
>> fabric, it should not do unified communications and it is not a web
>> platform. The fact that Gartner lists something as important does not
>> mean that Plone has to do that. Social networking falls firmly in that
>> category in my opinion.
>
> I agree, that said I've done lots of plone sites with social  
> networking components and will do again in future.  It's the vogue at  
> the moment, simple sites want to allow user-generated content to  
> appear and for those users to contact each other.  It's important that  
> we don't build ourselves into a corner so these things aren't possible  
> but it's not something for core.

Heh, vogue sounds as if it's going over again soon ;-)
And I am actually not talking about core or non-core, I mean Plone in
general and I count the add-on products in.

Regarding the core though it would be helpful if the user story would be
better, e.g. having users as objects would really help here IMHO (or is
it possible to use e.g. plone.relations with the users we have right now).
IMHO this is important so that there is a common building ground for
such things. I am not sure though which issues regarding PAS plugins
this brings with it.

-- Christian


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