The Plone Newsroom: Recent Episodes
Philip Bauer & Fred van Dijk
The Unofficial Plone News Podcast, Brought to you by Philip Bauer and Fred van Dijk . Visit the accompanying website with contens and links to the video recording at https://plone.org/newsroom .
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While we were chatting and relaxing, Release Manager Maurits van Rees finished the Release Candidate of Plone 6.0.7 on the same day. You can find this pre release announced on community.plone.org with all details, please test if you have some time available, so we can have a stable final release next week.
But there was plenty to talk about nonetheless:
- Plone 6.0.6 and previous (6.0.5/6.0.4) releases, highlights
- Plone 5.2.13
- Volto updates and features in the 17 alpha releases
- Classic-UI Team startup
- Plone Foundation news
- 7 new members welcomed to the Foundation
- Vote on proposes changed to the Plone Foundation Bylaws
- Recent Sprints held in May and June 2023.
- Beethoven Sprint, Bonn
- Midsummer Sprint, Jyväskylä
- Cerrado Sprint, Brasilia
- Upcoming Events
- Monthly Plone Tune-Up day, September 15th online
- PloneConf 2023, October 2nd- to 8th, Eibar
- And we had some time left to discuss add'ons.
- Fred mentions a number of small add'ons for Plone 6 Classic-UI, that you could add to your projects' policy or content packages but is easier to add and activate :
- collective.mosaicpage (Zest)
- collective.abovecontenttitleportlets & collective.belowcontentportlets (Zest)
- collective.tiles.collection (Redturtle)
- collective.tiles.discussion (derived from collective.portlet.dicussion)
- Philip discusses 4 ways to add Drop Down menu's to a Volto base Plone website
- volto-navigation-dropdown , by Ken Manheimer, with a nice discussion on community.plone.org while he designed and developed the add'on.
- volto-menu-customization (CodeSyntax)
- volto-dropdownmenu, (RedTurtle)
- And finally we ponder about the possibility of a Plone 6.1 alpha release before PloneConf.
We hope you enjoy this new podcast, hope to see you online soon or in person at PloneConf in October!
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Topics discussed in this episode of The Plone Newsroom:
- The PloneConf 2023 website is live and one of the keynote speakers is announced: Olatz Perez de Viñaspre, an associate professor at the University of the Basque Country.
- The Alpine City Sprint 2023 held in Innsbruck in February 6th to 10th
- Plone 6.0.3 and 6.0.4 releases, with their releated Volto 16 updated releases
- The Plone 5.1.12 release
- where the control panel now shows a warning if you use an unsupported Python version with Plone 5.2
- Upcoming events: World Plone Day 2023. Oh wait, this TPN episode is one of the many great video's aired during World Plone Day
- The upcoming Beethoven Sprint in Bonn, Germany in May.
- The Midsummer Sprint in Jyväskylä, Finland planned at the end of June.
- And we discuss 'strategic tasks for for Plone'
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Topics discussed in this podcast:
- The Alpine City Sprint 2023 held in Innsbruck in February 6th to 10th
- Plone 6.0.2 release
- News about the Mastering Plone Training
- Upcoming events: World Plone Day, submit a talk if you haven't so!
- And the date of the Beethoven Sprint is now public: 15th to 19th of May.
- We discuss some results / aera's worked on in Innsbruck like the Plone Addon Gallery, The Plone Architecture definition, and there is a new and promising implemtnation for Plone Distributions.
Our feature of this week deals with Container/Docker based Development and Deployment, which was also a fiercely worked on topic at the Sprint
Audio and video version available at https://youtu.be/f9aZof66yW0
Back from a not only relaxing holiday season and a too busy January, we recorded the next TPN episode just in time for the first on location sprint in 2023. We discuss:
- The Plone 6 release
- Plone 6.0.1 and 5.2.11 minor patches
- Plone 4.3 out of support
- The 2023 priorities of the Plone Foundation board
- The Upgrade of the Steering Circle to version 2.0
- The upcoming Alpine City Sprint 2023 : Let Plone shine like a diamond
Happy listening!
Back to our normal recording locations from home, we discuss this month the following subjects:
- Releases: Plone 6.0 rc1, Volto 16 final and Plone 6 release date
- Python 3.11 supported in Plone 6 & speedups
- Recap of PloneConf 2022
- New Ploneboard installed & officers elected
- Plone Foundation on Mastodon
- addon's: plone.app.debugtoolbar and GDPR modules
We discuss the latest Plone 6.0b2, Long Term Support for Plone and Python versions, we look forward to the upcoming Plone Conference 2022 in Namur with some talks in the schedule. We announce a special upcoming TPN episode .... and as a (small) feature we discuss and show the portlet functionality in Plone and show some add'ons for and tricks with Portlets.
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This podcast is mostly about the first beta of Plone 6 which was just released at the end of July. We discuss what is new in the backend and in the default (Volto) and classic frontends. Other topics: the upcoming Plone Conference 2022, We talk about some add'ons and Fred introduces a new subject area: marketing and sales.
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This podcast is all about sprints. Phlip and Fred have both been to the Beethoven sprint at the location in Bonn (2nd location this year was in Bucharest). Topics discussed:
- sprints in general,
- our past sprint experiences,
- what was worked on and achieved by people during the Beethoven sprint
- The upcoming Plone 6 release but this time zooming in on the included Volto 16 frontend
- And what is next after Volto 16.
And all this is done with a special guest that graciously agreed to join us the whole recording: Volto release manager Victor Fernandez de Alba.
Plone 6 Classic, release since 6.0.0a4
- Basics, UI Bootstrap 5, ES6, TinyMCE Resource registry
- Icon resolver, modern image scales, dexterity textindexer
- plone.base to prevent circular imports, code cleanup
- Development with ES6 supportremoved require.js
- modernized code: es 6 modules and imports
- mockup is an npm package (like plonetheme.barceloneta)
- no more resources and bundle resources
- no more through the web compilation of bundles
- jQuery still included.
Volto 15 development updates
- out since mid march, needed to be 15 because of semver & security fix required
- 4 point releases since then
- lazy loading: drafs.js.
- preview image component, Spanish & Basque translations
- CI/CD documentation goodness: Volto docs are now merged in the upcoming Plone 6 documentation, check https://docs.voltocms.com
- Quick demo: Volto 15.4 with 6.0a 4 runs fine, map block
Current and upcoming events and sprints:GSoC applications are open
- Zope April sprint - online
- World Plone Day - online and local events
- Beethoven Sprint - May 3rd to 7th, Bonn
- Buschenschank Sprint - May 14th to 19th, Graz/Steiermark
Add'ons & Misc:
- collective.easyform 4, Plone 6 compatible
- collective.honeypot and captcha
- zc.buildout 3 going to final, included in 6.0a4, test!
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Community News
- New Plone Foundation Members
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plone.org relaunch:
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blocks-conversion-tool: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@plone/blocks-conversion-tool
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Issues: default-pages, collections
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Call for translators of Volto: https://community.plone.org/t/call-for-translators-for-plone-6/14835
- Plone Conference dates are set: Week of Oct 10th - Namur, Belgium
- World Plone Day 2022, April 27: Call for talks https://plone.org/news/2022/world-plone-day-2022-submit-talks
Development News
- Classic Plone
- Volto
Addons
- Follow up on Composite Page Builders episode
- Products.CMFContentPanels migrated to Plone 6
- collective.cover: plone52/6 support merged
- plone.app.mosaic branch for Plone 6 (waiting for es6 merge)
- collective.exportimport
- Support for workflow-history and redirects/aliases
- Support for content revisions is incoming: https://github.com/collective/collective.exportimport/pull/107
postscript: The audio quality is suboptimal on this episode. We'll do an extra sound check next time.
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News:
- State of Plone 6 and Plone 6 Classic Development
Feature: Page Composition Tools:
- plone.app.mosaic. ES6 merge-request https://github.com/plone/plone.app.mosaic/pull/482
- collective.cover. Plone 6 merge-request: https://github.com/collective/collective.cover/pull/900
- collective.contentsections: https://github.com/collective/collective.contentsections
- collective.modules: https://github.com/starzel/collective.modules
- a lot of older addons: Collage, CMFContentPanels, ContentWellPortlets...
News:
- Plone.org Relaunch sprint report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dZOPJmFhzBeCGJlCNLkq1BDIMhpGpXLG4Lk9_QMkiOo
- Pone 6 Documentation sprint: https://community.plone.org/t/plone-6-documentation-ready-for-contributions/14741, https://6-dev-docs.plone.org/
- GSOC Ideas: https://community.plone.org/t/gsoc-2022-brainstorming/14690
Other/Add-ons:
- collective.easyformplugin.registration: https://github.com/collective/collective.easyformplugin.registration
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Welcome to another 'The Plone Newsroom'. Please note we do quite a few demo's this episode. The audio only version is a bit funny to listen to while we still practice our 'audio only' commentary skills on what is visible on the screenshares we do. :-$
Features:
- Plone.org Relaunch
- Migration with collective.exportimport
- View @@import_all: https://github.com/plone/plone.org/blob/main/backend/src/ploneorg.core/src/ploneorg/core/browser/import.py#L21
- pip install Plone
- Volto addons: volto-slate, volto-grid-block
News:
- Plone 6.0.0a2 released
- Board of Directors of Plone Foundation
- Plone Conference Talks on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGN9BI-OAQkQDLQinBwdEXpebDTQCwdGi
- Plone Shop with Plone Conference Shirts noir edition
- Max Jakob
Other/Add-ons:
- collective.taxonomy: new features
- collective.revisionmanager
- collective.impersonate
- plone.pdfexport
The Youtube recording is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArWRN40C7DQ
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Recorded on 11th of november 2021, the PloneConf "oh my there's so much to talk about" edition. Philip and Fred chat about notable talks, the sprint, how things went at the PloneConf Fanzone in Sorrento, Italy and the current state of Plone 6 development. Sorry, not too much time left to discuss add'ons and detailed technology, we're going to catch up on these in the next episode, promise!
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Features:
- Plone Conference (https://2021.ploneconf.org/schedule/talks)
- Plone 6 Development Status
News:
- 20th Birthday of Plone
- Follow-Up: Volto Search Block
Other:
- collective.taxonomy (https://pypi.org/project/collective.taxonomy)
- collective.cover (https://github.com/collective/collective.cover/issues/891)
- hcaptcha widget + easyform
Feature:
- PLOG - Plone Open Garden
News:
- Plone Conference 2021 (https://2021.ploneconf.org)
- Plone 5.2.5 release (https://plone.org/download/releases/5.2.5)
- The state of Plone 6 (https://6.demo.plone.org)
Other:
- collective explicitacquisition (https://pypi.org/project/collective.explicitacquisition)
- Volto Search Block (Pull-request: https://github.com/plone/volto/pull/2621, Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbMeIlUtEr4)