[Openflow-dev] introduction

[kapil t. <kth...@ea...>]

hi,

i'm a python/zope developer looking for a workflow system. i was looking at 
dcworkflow. dcworkflow does not contain the functionality i need nor am i 
using the CMF, so i started looking at openflow. reading through the 
openflow-dev archives it seemed that openflow is going to be integrated with 
the cmf. i checked through the cmf mailing list for the discussion referenced 
and can find no reference to it. (the closest thing seems to have been a 
discussion in october 2001). looking through cvs, it appears that development 
is active, indeed a few bugs i spotted a last week have disappeared :). i'm 
curious what the current state of development of is?? i'd like to help out 
and contribute as the alternative seems to be rolling my own. i have little 
experience with workflow systems outside of the acs-workflow 
(http://developer.arsdigita.com/doc/acs-workflow/) system which is based on a 
petri-net model. one nice feature of it was the ttw graphical workflow 
builder built on top of graphviz. (for example of see this one i built with 
it http://www.zope.org/Members/k_vertigo/Stories/Gideon/GideonWorkflow). i 
think this is something that would make openflow much easier to use. also, 
i've looked over the code and the documentation for openflow, but my 
understanding of some of the design details is lacking. is there any 
reference documentation on the net for some of the openflow design?

thanks

kapil thangavelu