> Hi, just to report that I spent sometime last weekend on the reference
> manual and plan to spend more this weekend. I hope I'll have the first
> few sections (the theory bit) ready for review at that point. It is a
> bit touch and go on  plone.org at the moment and I keep losing work, so
> I'll probably work as much as I can off-line.
>
> I'm trying to write the manual in response to the problems of a
> colleague here who was almost completely scared off Plone by the
> complexity of skinning Plone 3. As I do it I'm coming across areas where
> it would be really great to point to additional, in depth documentation.
> First thoughts (I'll come up with more when I've got the manual finished!):
>
> 1. buildout / paster specifically for theming. I have to say though that
> buildout as a first step is really overwhelming for the people I've been
> advising.
> 2. where are all my files.... each Plone installation puts them in a
> different place, as does buildout (and I spent over an hour last week
> trying to work out where my Plone eggs had gone to).
>
> I'm really anxious not to overlap with work other people are doing, but
> as an ordinary contributor I can't see what other stuff is being planned
> in draft. However I don't mind deleting or rewriting stuff later to fit
> in with the overall plan.
>
> Anne
>