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Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:44:50 +1000
From: David Crossley <crossley@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: [Discuss] Seed targets - publication templating
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Ross Gardler wrote:
> Anil Ramnanan wrote:
> >Thorsten Scherler wrote:
> >
> >>Another thing is that lenya 1.4.x brings publication templating through
> >>the usecase-fw (framework). That means that through a webinterface you
> >>can invoke the seeding of new publications. In general the usecase-fw is
> >>a very interesting component of lenya. IMO forrest would benefit to
> >>adopt the codebase and enable usecase within forrest. Like lenya will
> >>benefit from adapting plugins.
> >>
> >>http://lenya.apache.org/1_4/reference/usecase-framework/index.html
> >>
> >The publication templating would be very useful. It would be nice to see 
> >the ability to create your own custom site template. Something like:
> >"forrest seed-custom mytemplate"
> 
> I agree it owuld be useful, however, my mind is on other things right 
> now and I notice a lack of further comment from others. Perhaps this 
> should go into JIRA so we don't lose this good idea.

I have been concerned that this is too much too quick.
Lets get some other functionality settled first.
I am not keen on replicating code from Lenya at this stage.
Perhaps later we can get better interaction with Lenya.

-David