History for OnceAndFuturePTK

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Abstract

  This document is an "inception" document, outlining the charter and
  goals for DigitalCreations proposed initiative to bring the
  PortalToolkit to fruition.

Charter

  The charter of this project is to build an open-source content management
  system upon the core of the existing PTK.  In particular, the main
  deliverable will be a "product" (as distinct from a "platform" such as
  Zope),  usable "out-of-the-box" in the CMS / WebPortal /
  KnowledgeManagement market.

Goals

  * **Collimation**

    - it's a "product", not a "platform",

    - aimed at the ContentManager, not the WebDeveloper,

    - requiring little or no configuration to get working,

    - "self-revealing" to the ContentManager,

    - establishing clearly-delineated roles for its users.

  * **Communication**

    - Foster the community which has formed around PTK, build on
      their contributions, and ensure *they* win, too.

    - Improve and formalize our process for working in a fishbowl.

    - Reduce "barriers to entry" by embracing standards and conventions

  * **Credibility**

    - Achieve "shrink-wrap" credibility in the ContentManagementSystem
      market.

    - Leverage Zope's architectural strengths to position the product
      favorably against its competition:  Vignette, Interwoven,
      Spectra, etc.

Services

  The CMS/PTK will provide a coherent set of services to the
  ContentManager.

   * **Membership** 

     - Online signup

     - multiple user sources

     - home folder

     - personalization

   * **Cataloging**

     - Fielded indexes

     - Full-text indexes

     - Topics, *qua* "virtual folders"

     - Transactional, therefore automagically in synch

     - Role-based results

   * **Workflow**

     - Pluggable WorkflowModel

  * **Integration**

     - Object-relational, LDAP, SMB, WebDAV

  * **Syndication**

     - RSS

  * **Security**

  * **Clustering**

Comments

  This is exactly what I have outlined on http://zope.launchpoint.net/Scotts If you download my abstraction model .pdf, you can see what I am proposing. I have already started to implement some of this into the PTK with ZopeFish. - <a href="malto:[email protected]">Scott B.</a> I have also started a ZWiki that is about Zope Fish and the abstraction model at <a href="http://www.zope.org/WikiCentral/ZFWiki">ZFwiki</a>