Hi. My name is Yuri Kropotov. I am a student and interested to project of GSoC. After first view with project were a few questions.
What way is best to contact with mentors group ?
I want to ask community and GSoC mentor Fulvio Casali about plone.app.theming addon. I find a some code of app.theming at Plone5 folder at path: /buildout-cache/eggs/app.theming. All code is placed here? Is that a true and exist installed addon and i may to start a review it ?
I have some minds after read idea's description named "Improved Import of non-Plone Themes" and I want to ask how it current version works. Any other advice about the project idea would be helpful.
Previously I set up the Diazo to my environment. I has read a plone5 documentation. It is all my steps. So the app.theming was 'enabled' by default now and have exist in my Plone. It is a right thinking?
@VerSooSet,
Step 1 - get familiar with how plone.app.theming works
To start it is best to play with a theme, the plone.app.theming "machinery" is what powers the Plone theming experience.
Step 2 - Learn how to use buildout and mr.developer to check out a source package
The package that you mention under buildout-cache should not be touched, instead you need to use mr.developer to check out a source package, in this case you want the plone.app.theming source
Step 3 - Get familiar with diazo and the importing mechanism used by plone.app.theming
The importing mechanism is what you'll be working on improving, most likely the code you want will either be directly in plone.app.theming or in one of its dependencies.
I hope this points you in the right direction. You'll also probably need to learn about LESS and a bit of lxml
You are encouraged to fix a bug
One thing that helps to set one applicant apart from another is whether they have been able to contribute meaningful bugfixes to Plone BEFORE the applying to GSOC.
Here's a bug which mentions plone.app.theming that might be valuable to fix https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/issues/1505
Welcome to Plone, @VerSooSet! We're very happy you have chosen to look into working on a GSoC project with us. @fulv is available here in this forum. Hopefully mentioning his name will bring his attention to your questions.
I won't go too much further into next steps, @pigeonflight has already done an excellent job of that. Please do feel free to @-mention me or anyone else here to gain our attention. We're happy to answer your questions and provide any help we can in getting started.
Thanks @cewing and @pigeonflight, couldn't have said it better myself. @VerSooSet, please look at @pigeonflight's suggestions, those are the best first steps for you right now.
Unfortunately, the question #1505 has not yet been resolved. I have read the documentation about layers, adapters and resourceregistry, I do not understand how it works and I made an assumption only.
I organized a blog to me. There are short reports. Now you always see my tasks to next time.
And that is what about i want to talk. It seems I'm to be late. It will take few days to get familiar with Diazo, then I may start the discuss for proposal more targeting. I'm worry about time.
Idea's part.
Short about manifest file generated.
I suggest collecting resources of Non-Plone themes data. And filling it into template of manifest. That file was described in app.theming ReadMe.
@VerSooSet: it is terrific that you've taken these steps to start documenting your work in learning what you need to work on this idea. Opening those issues in the plone.app.theming issue tracker is a great approach. @fulv or @pigeonflight, could you take a look at the issues reported here and help resolve them?
Another useful step would be to begin drafting a proposal for your project in the open. I believe you can start writing a proposal and allow us to review it before the deadline on April 3. By doing so, you allow us to give you feedback and help you to shape the proposal before the deadline hits.
Could you go ahead and move this proposal into the GSoC website as a draft and make sure you've allowed the Plone mentors to comment on it? That will allow us to help you shape the proposal up in time for the deadline next Monday.
I think that I did not what author wanted. I'm interested to know what a community says about idea of automatic renaming as the idea of improving addon.Think i'm not first one who do same attempt for. How do you think the need for renaming theme on the server side exists?
Maybe a pop up warning that a theme by that name already exists and do you want to give it a unique name (possibly by appending the date and time, e.g. "-201704021004"? yes/no/cancel
Good explanation. The draft was made available on the website of the program. Removed an open version so there was no editing here.