[Zope-PTK] Workflow - security model

[Spicklemire, Jerry]

Chalu Kim says:

> In my previous message, I have mentioned two idea;
> 
> 1. selective packing built into generic object model
> 2. selective ZODB mounting to create that subversioning
> 3. with this, a utility to extract sub-object into ZODB mountable file
> 
> Once, these things are in place. We can take it a step further to 
> create portable ZODB.

Some existing modules may be just what you want, e.g. Relational 
(Oracle, Berkely) Storage, 

http://www.zope.org/Products/OracleStorage/

and Mounted FileStorage. 

http://www.zope.org/Members/anthony/software/MountedFileStorage/

By moving Zope Objects into a Tabular (RDBM) system packing can be 
dispensed with, to a large degree. Further, the option to use 
selectable sources for the storage and retrieval of any object type 
suggest the possibility to physically seperate objects types e.g. 
"Content", "Presentation", "Logic". 

Clearly the "Logic" partition is the piece that most coders struggle 
with, so a Mountable, Relational "Logic" store could go a long way 
toward supplementing the basic infrastructure requirements.

Of course, everyone knows that the most important part is whatever 
they are personally involved in, so the "Content" and "Presentation" 
folks may see this differently.

> Building CVS into Zope to create sub-version does not sound nice. 
> It definitely throws something off.

I don't think amyone sees ZCVS Mixin as the ultimate solution, but 
taken in context of leveraging a popular existing skillset, it can 
help quite significantly, especially for complex sites, and all the 
more when multiple developers are working remotely. There's a good 
reason CVS is such a workhorse in the world of Global Open Source 
projects. That won't keep all those coders from grabbing something 
even better, when it "gets there", in a heartbeat! 

Later,
Jerry S.