Explanation#
Background knowledge, design decisions, and project philosophy. These pages help you understand why plone.meta works the way it does.
Why Standardize?
The motivation behind plone.meta: what problems it solves, what it replaces, and why centralized configuration management matters for the Plone ecosystem.
Architecture
How plone.meta works internally: template rendering, file generation, validation, and the git workflow.
Configuration Philosophy
The design principles behind the extra_lines approach: sane defaults with simple extensibility.
Scope and Limitations
What plone.meta covers and what it intentionally does not cover. Projects that should not use plone.meta.