[Zope] Feature requests and questions

[Christopher Petrilli]

On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 05:29:05PM -0400, Ken Manheimer wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 13, 1999 4:50 PM Christopher Petrilli wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 01:45:02PM -0700, Andrew Wooldridge wrote:
> > > 7) implement a mailing list from within Zope
> > 
> > Woah, different thing entirely.  Check out Mailman (www.list.org), and
> > there's some talk about implementing a sort of integration between the
> > two, but that should be taken to them, not to the Zope people.
> 
> [Ken says neat things about integrating the two]
> 
> So there's a lot of nice stuff to do here.  When we'll pinpoint what,
> that would have priority, is a question.  There's *lotsa* nice stuff to
> do with zope...

I'd say converting to DocumentTemplates would be easy and a high-gain
thing :-) The current Mailman thing is not the prettiest known :-)
Having said that, I think the rest should be abstracted to a generic
mail interface... Something like the ability to CONTROL Mailman from
Zope, but not necessarily integrating the two together.

> > >     c)workflow
> > 
> > 27 ton weight. But not impossible, but I'm not sure it belongs IN
> Zope,
> > honestly.
> 
> I would not dismiss this too quickly.  We went into the dreamworld for a
> day or two, thinking about what could be if we had a versatile workflow
> engine in zope, and i think a lot of mouths were watering.  Imagine if
> you had a bunch of interfaces and could express your activity logic for
> expressing the flow between them in a high-level, comprehensible way.
> That might be a reeeal convenient way to build applicable portions of a
> web site.  This is probably something we'll return to after linux expo.

I think this should run seperate from the Zope server though... at least
that's what I meant to say... :-)  For example the PAOS project that
Carl did at one point was REALLY REALLY cool :-)

Chris
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