Listing Your Project in Plone Software Center

Plone Software Center allows you to list your product on plone.org, show releases, manage your documentation, handle improvement plans, and more--all without forcing you into any particular development process or repository. We intend for this to become the canonical repository for Plone products. This tutorial walks through the benefits of PSC and demonstrates how to make the most of it.

  1. About Plone Software Center What Plone Software Center does and why it is so important for Plone.
  2. Adding Your Project Adding your project to Plone Software Center is easy.
  3. Creating a Good Documentation Section Plone Software Center can contain all the documentation types of Plone Help Center, giving you an easy way to manage your documentation needs.
  4. Making Releases through PloneSoftwareCenter You can use Plone Software Center to show new releases and post downloadable files.
  5. Using Improvement Proposals Effectively Improvement Proposals (like Plone's PLIPs and Python's PEPs) are documents that you or others can write for your project to outline new features or designs. They give fellow developers and users a way to understand what features might be coming, and to organize which improvements will land in which versions.
  6. Tips for a Successful Project Ideas for naming conventions, writing project descriptions, and other points for a succesful project.
  7. Managing the release phases of your project If you use the Software Center to plan upcoming releases and do alpha/beta/RC/Final releases, here's a few guidelines to make the process easier.

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Audience Participation

Posted by Dan Thomas at Mar 17, 2005 04:48 AM
This is something I've been eagerly awaiting for a long while. Is it possible to post software on behalf of others or must developers post their own?

Dan

You can post software on behalf of others, but coordinate with the plone-website list

Posted by Alexander Limi at May 08, 2005 10:43 PM
We would like to transfer the ownership of third-party products that are not owned by the author to the website group on plone.org, so it can easily be kept up to date.

Feel free to add projects, and we will take ownership of the listings and transfer that ownership when/if the author wants to maintain it himself.

It's also common decency to inform the author about it, and ask if he wants to maintain it himself first. :)

Code available.

Posted by malcontent at Oct 24, 2005 12:15 AM
Is the code from the software and documentation section available for people who want to implement the same things in their intranets?

Of course

Posted by Martin Aspeli at Jun 06, 2006 09:42 AM
It's all open source; see http://plone.org/products/plonesoftwarecenter and http://plone.org/products/plonehelpcenter

Please note that at the time of writing, the released versions of both lag behind those running on plone.org; 1.0 releases of both products are semi-imminent.

Martin