[phoenix-dev] Phoenix Meeting minutes - Sept 2/2005 11:00am

[Denis Roy <denis.roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phoenix Meeting minutes - Sept 2/2005 11:00am

1. Phoenix will no longer rely on a Content Management System (CMS)

The CMS' we tried either didn't have the flexibility we think our
projects require or would have required a serious resource investment in
customizing them to meet the requirements

The agreed alternative is to use the tools our projects are already
using for website development: Eclipse and PHP plugins, and CVS.

In order to achieve the Phoenix goals, a series of Cascading Stylesheets
will be used and PHP templates will be created to aid in migrating
pages. The PHP tempate will be responsible for setting up common page
elements, such as a top banner, menubars, navigation sections, all
without the help of carefully crafted CSS (no html tables or frames).

However, this methodology makes hierarchical navigation difficult to
achieve (i.e., collapsing, tree-based nav bar, or breadcrumbs)


2. Theme/Template selection

The new Eclipse theme (skin) will be selected Wednesday, at 8:00am
Eastern by examining the Bugzilla votes for the (currently) three
templates.  Anyone wishing to create new templates is encouraged to do
so by following the guidelines at
http://www.eclipse.org/phoenix/whatsnew/looking_for_templates.html


3. Three action items have been defined as blocking the current progress
of Phoenix:

- Creation of positional and visual CSS (Denis with web designers)
- Documentation of Eclipse environment setup for authoring pages (Mike)
- Documentation of Commit process to connect to CVS, checkin and
checkout pages (Denis)


4. Tagging

The project members agreed that tagging was an feature worth looking into


5. Denis to open a Bug for stylesheet requirements for projects


If I've left something out....


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Denis Roy
Manager, IT Infrastructure
Eclipse Foundation, Inc.
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Cell: 819.210.6481
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