[ZDP] Integration of zdp.zope.org and www.zope.org

[Maik Roeder]

Hi !

mindlace wrote:
> > Maik Roeder wrote:
> > > The ZDP project has got another server than the main Zope site, and
> > > there are only a few spare time developers working on this site. If
> > > we could work together with Digital Creations and perhaps on the
> > > same server as Zope.org, things would be much easier !
> >
> > I'm inclined to agree, why have a ZD portal when you could just have a
> > Zope portal...

Great ! Finally we have all stakeholders together at one table ! 
Now we can start to work together to make this thing happening ! :-)

> > > The ZDP has "only" got
> > > the aim to point to existing stuff. Restructuring the existing docs
> > > is not our job.
> >
> > Maybe it should be? How about rebuilding zope.org as a generic 'Zope
> > Portal' with the building and documenting work being done more by the
> > community? (ie: integrating ZDP and Zope.org)
> 
> You got it.  I think that the ZD portal and Zope.org should be
> seamlessly integrated.  More to the point, I have the authority to make
> it happen on DC's end.  I am *very* interested in integrating the
> community's effort more completely into Zope.org.

Have you read "Looking at Web portals": 

http://www.builder.com/Business/Portal

This should make it easier to discuss whether we need 
Horizontal or Vertical Portals.
 
> Furthermore, this *is* a major part of what I need to do with Zope.org.
> It is, indeed, part of my Job Description:
> 
> 4. Use direct assistance, tight documentation integration, collaborative
> tools and appropriate koans to provide a path to Zope Zen: a gentle
> learning curve that takes participants from novice DTML work to hacking
> zope internals
> 
> So I *do* have time to help with this, and I don't imagine my employer
> will give me flack :)
>
> I will admit that I am not exactly up to speed on who's doing what with
> ZDP, nor am I trying to impose a vision.

Maybe you should go through the mailing list from December 26th, which
is when we started the ZDP-Tools ;-) 

> So what do you folks think?

We first have to decide whether to integrate everything on Zope.org, or on
zdp.zope.org. When we have this part sorted out, we can start discussing
the rest.

Greetings,

Maik Röder

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