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GSoC Improvements on Plonecli

By Kumar Akshay

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about me

  • I’m a senior student pursuing Bachelor in Electronics and Communication Engineering.
  • In my free time, I love to participate in algorithmic focused coding challenges.

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GSoC milestones

First Evaluation

Second Evaluation

Third Evaluation

Improved content_type subtemplate and other minor updates

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Added add/update locale, mrbob default profile, test commands in plonecli

Added view, viewlet, portlet

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June

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August

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bobtemplates.plone

  • Uses mr.bob to generate boilerplate code for different plone templates.
  • You can generate templates like
    • addon
    • theme_package
    • buildout

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bobtemplates.plone

  • And subtemplates
    • behavior
    • content_type
    • theme
    • theme_barceloneta
    • portlet
    • view
    • viewlet
    • vocabulary

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bobtemplates.plone

  • And subtemplates
    • behavior
    • content_type
    • theme
    • theme_barceloneta
    • portlet
    • view
    • viewlet
    • vocabulary
  • things that I worked on

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content_type sub-template

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content_type sub-template

  • parent content_type name if global_allow is false
  • Hiding filter option if dexterity_type_base_class is item

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  • increased test coverage for all conditional configurations
  • Robot tests coverage too

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view sub-template

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view sub-template

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viewlet sub-template

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viewlet sub-template

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portlet sub-template

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portlet sub-template

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portlet sub-template

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plonecli

  • It’s a wrapper on bobtemplates.plone
  • CLI for easy usage and simple to remember commands

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Why do we need plonecli config command?

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plonecli config command

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update_locale command

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other minor improvements

  • More useful commands in plonecli
    • plonecli -V
    • plonecli test -t/-s/-a

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  • Increased test coverage
    • 6.66% increase in plonecli
    • 2% increase in bobtemplates.plone

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other minor improvements

  • For more detail -

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https://github.com/plone/plonecli/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-Project-Report

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GSoC experience

  • Fun
  • Huge learning curve
  • Constant mentor support
  • Very friendly community

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GSoC mentors

Maik Derstappen

Alexander Loechel

Encolpe Degoute

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plonecli

To know more about present and future scope of plonecli

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“Plone CLI” by Maik Derstappen

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On Nov 9 between 12:20 - 12:40 PM

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project links

plonecli - https://github.com/plone/plonecli

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bobtemplates.plone - https://github.com/plone/bobtemplates.plone

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Thank You

Any questions?