Since my last entry I’ve finally managed to get up to speed with my sprint project (hence the lack of blogging). Wading knee-deep through the Archetypes sources looking for the right place to hook into for setting the default content type, I was really glad to have such experienced tour-guides at my disposal. Nonetheless, in the end I was pretty relieved to be able to give a small demo of my endeavours on the evening of the last day — I had wired the final bits literally just five minutes prior to the wrapup-meeting ;-)

So while it really doesn’t exactly speak for the architecture of Archetypes that it took two days and a room full of Plone veterans to complete a PLIP of such humble scope I can say in it’s defence, that once I had everything sorted out it took only 20 additional minutes to add Textile support, as well — including tests…

Once I’m back home I’ll still add some additional tests and expose the ZMI properties to the Plone control panel. An additional feature that could be useful would be to enable users to override the site default with their own personal preference, similar to how it’s already being handled with features such as enabling external editor or skin switching.

All in all this sprint has been terrific. Many thanks to Geir from Plone Solutions for organizing everything and being the “Sprint Daddy” for all of us ;-) But also a big thank you to all of the co-sprinters - simply everybody helped make this fun and productive. I’m definitely looking forward to the next conference or sprint!