[Zope-CMF] cmf tracker issues and the thought process.

[Tres Seaver]

James Johnson wrote:

 > Hi, I'm wondering were are the discussions for some changes and things that  go into parts of Zope.  I"m referring to tracker issues
 >  #1.  {HYPERLINK "http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/Tracker/342/1"}portal content  PUBLISHED status carries across cut-paste .
 > Imho if an item is already  published, it should stay that way when copied.  Why would you want to  change its status just
 > because of copying it?  On a regular file system ,  copying files on the same volume retains the same settings. Perhaps
 > something like copying items to different cmf instance resets permissions  and copying to the same instance retains settings?
 > What do ya think?

This is a policy issue: in some workflow-based sites, folder owners
should not be able to create un-reviewed resources by using copy-paste
to clone reviewed content.  Even moving reviewed content using
cut-paste might violate such a site's policies (e.g., it could
break links from other pages).   This is too tricky to handle via
a simple bugfix in the core;  fortunately, the 'folder_paste' skin
method is customizable, so that the site manager can make it
enforce whatever policy is needful ('folder_delete' should be
tweaked to enforce appropriate policy, too).

Based on this analysis, I plan to defer / reject the tracker
issue.

Tres.
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