[railroad-dev] Some help wanted]

[Jan-Wijbrand Kolman]

(Sorry for the somewhat late response..)

>> Maybe I am the only one to think that but I feel there is not too much 
>> documentation.
> 
> There doesn't seem to be. I found a couple of key things missing.
> Particularly with regard to the way RailRoad will call back to your CMS (in
> our case, Plone) to determine whether someone has access to an item or not.

Admittedly, yes, documentation is lacking... we need to do something about this. 
There's some more Railroad work planned ahead - I'll make sure documentation 
gets a more proper place in it.

> I've had a couple of problems with meta-data not storing properly (any time
> you viewed a PloneRailroadProxy object all the metadata got unset) and an
> associated flood of DB traffic (postgres is on another machine accessed via
> 100Mb TCP LAN); a quirk with viewing Proxy objects with an empty resource_url
> in a Plone 'folder contents' listing and trouble uploading resources from IE
> (which hands over the full path of the file you pick).

This is all very usefull to know about. The IE-uploading trouble is of course 
well known IE behaviour but so easy to overlook when you're developing on a 
linux-box... I'll create an issue for this right away.

> I've now got a subclass of PloneRailroadProxy with which we can add images to
> our repository and the proxy object makes itself a few (smaller) copies of
> the image for folder listings/previews. Subjecting these objects to Plone's
> workflow also raised some quirks with the metadata not being unmapped
> correctly, though I think this was a direct result of a change I made when
> trying to solve the metadata issue from above.

Can you elaborate a little more on this 'loosing metadata' issue? It's not 
something we found before. It sounds kinda strange to me, I'd like to see if we 
can find a reason for this.

> I presume the subversion repository is as up-to-date as it gets?

Yes it is.

As I said, there's some more work planned ahead. Personally I'd really like to 
move forward but some more pressing matters take precedence at the moment. :| Of 
course, if there's a way we can cooperate I'm all for it!

If in the meantime I can be of any help, please also contact me on #railroad.

regards
jw

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Jan-Wijbrand Kolman
jw at infrae.com