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Setup Instructions

What you should do to prepare for the sprint.

1. Create Plone.org Account

If you don't already have an account on Plone.org, you should create one.  This will be necessary if you want to access to the collective SVN (to contribute products and/or code).

2. Prepare Your Laptop

We want to minimize install/setup time so we can get straight to work on Saturday morning!  Try to get your laptop prepared in advance.

For this sprint, we'll all be working on Plone 3.3.5.  Install with the unified installer or your favorite method.

According to the suggestions on the topics page, we'll be working on projects related to theming, xdv, end-user training, FacultyStaffDirectory, and Ploneboard.    We've prepared a buildout that will pull in all the necessary products for your convenience:

View the recommended buildout.cfg

Download the recommended buildout.cfg

Note: If you use the buildout.cfg file provided for the sprint, be sure to correct the path to your buildout-cache directory in the root Plone folder.  Also be aware that the unified installer sets a user admin/pass which you will need to pull from your previous buildout.

Products included are:

  • Products.FacultyStaffDirectory
  • Products.Ploneboard
  • Products.PloneboardNotify
  • collective.xdv
  • collective.amberjack.core (pin to version 0.9 for Plone 3)
  • collective.amberjack.plonetour (pin to 0.9)
  • collective.amberjack.portlet (pin to 0.9)

You can go ahead and install them under Site Setup, or wait until the sprint and just install the ones you need.

Notes:

  1. This buildout has been tested on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 (with Xcode tools 10.4 SDK installed).  If you're on Windows or Linux, it should work, but no guarantees...
  2. While testing we ran into problems with the lxml package required by collective.xdv.  Recommended that you install a fresh Plone instance, with clean buildout-cache, and follow these instructions to install lxml on Mac OS X 10.6.
  3. Ploneboard includes but does not automatically install its dependencies.  Under Site Setup, you must install Workflow Policy Support (CMFPlacefulWorkflow) and Attachment Support first before installing Ploneboard.