[triangle-zpug] Plone 3.0 released!

[Chris Calloway]

David Handy wrote:
> "Started rolling out" means "had a conference call with the executive board
> and talked them through logging in and creating content." :)

That means you demo'd it.

Create a Plone 3.0 site from scratch.

Advantages straight off the release page:

     * Full versioning support, history and reverting to older revisions
     * Improved performance
     * Inline (Ajax) editing
     * Link and reference integrity checking
     * Automatic locking and unlocking
     * Improved handling of permissions and sharing
     * Upgraded visual (WYSIWYG) content editor
     * Full-text indexing of Word and PDF documents
     * Wiki support and multiple new mark-up formats
     * Rules engine for content
     * Strengthened security

Top 20 reasons:

http://plone.org/products/plone/features/3.0

Another reason: there is general community support for the last two 
releases. As soon as 3.5 comes out, nobody will give a hoot at 2.5.3. 
Old sites should be tested and stable by then.

 > Maybe these steps: copy to another Plone instance on my
 > machine, upgrade that instance, test, then move it all to the new
 > host...

Is there any other way?

"Move" meaning, if you have any customizations to move, have them 
wrapped up in products or modules.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
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