[Zope-CMF] Using CMF for a project-centric site?

Jon Edwards jon@pcgs.freeserve.co.uk
Mon, 2 Jul 2001 12:46:07 +0100


Hi Darrin,

(All comments below are, of course, IMHO!)

I think the short answer to your question is... Depends how soon you need a
solution!  :-)

If you want Souceforge functionality urgently, I'd go for Seb's suggestion
of using the sourceforge code.

On the other hand, if it's not urgent, you'll probably benefit from greater
integration with the rest of your site if you look at a CMF-based option.

I seem to remember a couple of people have asked similar questions, but
can't find the posts at the moment. A search through the archives -
http://zope.nipltd.com/public/lists/ptk-archive.nsf/$$Search?OpenForm -
might reveal some potential collaborators?

You can see the CMF Tracker that Marc mentioned here -
http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/Tracker - I thought you could download it
as a product, but I can't find any links, so I may be wrong?

I'd agree with other replies that have recommended keeping the
user-centricity of CMF. Have a look at some of the workgroup-related
discussions -

http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007537.html
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007578.html
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007577.html

- a "workgroup" isn't a million miles away from a "project"!

I think there's a lot of people (me included) who are looking at this kind
of functionality, so you may get more help/support if you follow this route?
You could use the Workgroup ideas as your foundation, then add more
sourceforge-like facilities as optional-extras.

We're looking at workgroups/project-groups for intranets and to help large
organisations collaborate around websites, so if you take this route, I'd be
interested in collaborating. (We're producing open-source stuff for the
healthcare/medical sector, so ours is in a good cause too  ;-)

HTH

Cheers, Jon