-----Original Message----- From: Kevin Dangoor [mailto:kid@kendermedia.com] Sent: Saturday, October 23, 1999 12:45 PM To: Michel Pelletier; zope-dev@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] PTK Model
Hi, Michel
This model does provide some good info about some of the basic PTK object types and their relationships... I do have a few questions about this:
- Does MFI exist now, or are you going to redo the objects that exist on the current zope.org site so that they utilizes the MFI?
This looks like two questions in one sentence, so I'll answer them seperately. MFI exists as a skelatal prototype, the current model is much more advanced then the one you see now, in fact MFI has a whole model unto itself. I will post it on Monday. The objects that PTK come with are stock objects, most of which will be 'ports' of the existing zope site objects. They will change in minor ways, ie, they will use MFI, their interfaces will be more consistent, and their behavior will be analyzed (hopefully by all of you!) to see if they can be made more useful. A familiar rhythm I'm looking for is 1) release an alpha, 2) someone points out a problem, 3) that person, using the model, describes exactly how they think it should work. This doesn't mean you have to be a modeler, but you should be able to look at UML and at least be able to say "Class such-and-such defines this method, I think the method should return X". In fact, this doesn't even need UML, you can do this from the source. The model is to make it easer for us all the grasp the big picture.
- Please tell me that the Membership System and Topics are still planned... these are really important.
Yes they are planned. I didn't include them in this early model.
- Does the original model file include information about the attributes you plan for each of the object types? (I didn't see it in the HTML version anywhere)
Other than MFI, I have not reached down to that level of detail yet. -Michel