[Zope3-dev] Re: Community opinion about workflow engine

[Raphael Ritz]

Godefroid Chapelle schrieb:
[..]
> In order to help us make a proposal, we would be very interested to hear 
> your comments both
> 
> - about the existing workflows (DCWorkflow, Zope3.wfmc, AlphaFlow,
> OpenFlow...)
> 
> - or about the directions that you would suggest in order to help you
> use a given engine (missing features, simplification,...) and join the
> effort to improve one of the existing engines.
> 

Depends a bit on what you need in the end: Plone integration?
activity based wf? "stand-alone" Zope 3 application (meaning:
it should run in a plain Zope 3 environment, no
Zope 2/Five/CMF/Plone ...)

If you can get away with a simple state-based wf and you need
Plone support DCWorkflow should be just fine.

If you need to support activity-based workflows and Plone integration
I'd start looking into AlphaFlow first and help Christian and the
gocept guys to get it ready for Plone 3. ;-)

If you need it to be independent of CMF/Plone ... then
zope3.wfmc might be a starting point but without having looked
at it recently I do think it's quite old and may not be up to
the current best practices, so there might be some effort involved.
Others please correct me if I'm wrong!

Raphael

> Thanks