Over the past couple of weeks, I've read a few messages on this list along the line of: "Hey, I need to be able to do X. Anyone know how to do that?" "Yeah, use Product Y." This got me to thinking. Is there a central repository that catalogs all Zope products and provides some explanation of what they do? If there is, perhaps a prominent pointer to it on Zope.org? If not, does this seem like a useful idea? How would it be undertaken? Volunteer effort, presumably. -- Dan Shafer, Author-Consultant http://www.danshafer.com http://www.shafermedia.com
-> This got me to thinking. Is there a central repository that catalogs -> all Zope products and provides some explanation of what they do? http://www.zope.org/Products/ Click on "All Products" at the bottom to see, well, all Products. That URL is http://www.zope.org/Products/all_products But, as a new user, I'd like to complain about this layout. I had to spend a long time to find out the Products were under "Download" on the main menu. It is completely un-obvious as the location to find Products. Furthermore, it took me 15 minutes to find out how to install a new Product (off of the website). I actually had to use the Search widget and surf through the results of my search to eventually find a note explaining how to install them. IMHO, there should be a main top-level nav link called "Products" that has links on what they are, the listing of products (as presently appreas under "Download"), how to install a Product, and links to resources on how to develop a Product. --Derek
Derek Simkowiak wrote:
-> This got me to thinking. Is there a central repository that catalogs -> all Zope products and provides some explanation of what they do?
Click on "All Products" at the bottom to see, well, all Products. That URL is
Thanks, Derek. I did a search for Products on the site but this link didn't come up. -- Dan Shafer, Author-Consultant http://www.danshafer.com http://www.shafermedia.com
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:08:09AM -0800, Dan Shafer wrote:
Over the past couple of weeks, I've read a few messages on this list along the line of:
"Hey, I need to be able to do X. Anyone know how to do that?"
"Yeah, use Product Y."
This got me to thinking. Is there a central repository that catalogs all Zope products and provides some explanation of what they do? If there is, perhaps a prominent pointer to it on Zope.org? If not, does this seem like a useful idea? How would it be undertaken? Volunteer effort, presumably.
Actually, there is a volunteer effort underway to make the Zope.org site more usable. It is still in its early stages (functional spec), but you could maybe help out already; see the discussion on Zope-Web: http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-web/2001-December/date.html The project homepage is about to appear at http://www.zope.org/Resources/Community/Zope If it is not there yet in an hour or so, you can bug Paul (CC-ed) about it. -- Martijn Pieters | Software Engineer mailto:mj@zope.com | Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com/ | Creators of Zope http://www.zope.org/ ---------------------------------------------
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 02:28:49PM -0500, Martijn Pieters wrote:
If it is not there yet in an hour or so, you can bug Paul (CC-ed) about it.
And I failed to get the email address right again. Hereby a correct CC. -- Martijn Pieters | Software Engineer mailto:mj@zope.com | Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com/ | Creators of Zope http://www.zope.org/ ---------------------------------------------
Apologies, the link is actually at a different locations: http://www.zope.org/Resources/ZOST/ I still have more work to do, including filling out some of the links on that page. --Paul Martijn Pieters wrote:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:08:09AM -0800, Dan Shafer wrote:
Over the past couple of weeks, I've read a few messages on this list along the line of:
"Hey, I need to be able to do X. Anyone know how to do that?"
"Yeah, use Product Y."
This got me to thinking. Is there a central repository that catalogs all Zope products and provides some explanation of what they do? If there is, perhaps a prominent pointer to it on Zope.org? If not, does this seem like a useful idea? How would it be undertaken? Volunteer effort, presumably.
Actually, there is a volunteer effort underway to make the Zope.org site more usable. It is still in its early stages (functional spec), but you could maybe help out already; see the discussion on Zope-Web:
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-web/2001-December/date.html
The project homepage is about to appear at
http://www.zope.org/Resources/Community/Zope
If it is not there yet in an hour or so, you can bug Paul (CC-ed) about it.
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