On 4/22/12 9:34 PM, Dylan Jay wrote:
> On 23/04/2012, at 2:27 PM, David Glick wrote:
>
>> On 4/16/12 9:52 PM, Dylan Jay wrote:
>>> On 30/03/2012, at 5:40 PM, David Glick wrote:
>>>
>>>> One of the last blockers for Plone 4.2 is fixing some issues in
>>>> integrating new-style collections. Eric Steele did a lot of work on
>>>> this
>>>> at the Cioppino sprint (especially making sure the date criteria
>>>> work
>>>> reasonably and that a new site gets created with new-style news and
>>>> events collections). I just followed up on that by fixing the test
>>>> setup
>>>> and a bunch of tests that were broken due to the switch.
>>>>
>>>> There are a few remaining broken tests which seem to be due to
>>>> actual
>>>> issues:
>>>> 1. We currently have both the old collection portlet from
>>>> plone.portlet.collection and a new, very similar one from
>>>> plone.app.collection. This seems like a very confusing situation for
>>>> users. I think we should only have one collection portlet that works
>>>> with either type of collection (either via conditional logic to get
>>>> the
>>>> results for each type of collection, or by adding a backwards-
>>>> compatible
>>>> API to new-style collections).
>>>> 2. The browser_collection_views.txt test in CMFPlone shows that the
>>>> "Tabular view" is breaking for new-style collections.
>>> I might be mistaken but I was just looking at the code on github and
>>> ability to pick metadata fields to display on the tabular view is not
>>> there. This might explain that failing test.
>>>
>> Quite possibly. I've personally got along quite fine without ever
>> using the tabular view, so don't feel like spending time supporting
>> it, but if someone who needs it wants to add this, that would be
>> encouraged. :)
> I might have a go at making something better that supports adding
> arbitrary fields into multiple kinds of listing views but that would
> be 4.3 if accepted at all. Which means that 4.2 when using
> p.a.collections is not feature compatible with old collections. but
> since old collections are still there then maybe thats an acceptable
> regression?
>
I would call it a known issue that could be fixed at any time as a
bugfix as long as someone is motivated to do the work. The new
collections are already better than the old collections for 90% of cases
that don't need this feature; I don't think we should let it hold up a
release.
David
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