Plone should create a Cloud Computing appliance for Amazon EC2 or Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/cloud/UEC) so that people can easily get started with Plone.

We can currently use the folder_contents view to copy, delete, rename batches of objects. It would be good to be able to select and then edit a field (or group of fields) across a batch of objects, rather than having to open each object in turn.

"The Big Green Button" is an idea that has been floated around to make it easier to push plone content to a static web server or to a sql database. Plone becomes just the content management tool and not the content delivery server.

http://www.martinaspeli.net/articles/pete-and-andy-try-plone-4

http://blog.kapilt.com/2008/07/02/introducing-content-mirror/

http://blog.delaguardia.com.mx/hosting-options-plone-adoption-and-the-big-green-button

The div for documentDescription should be hidden when there is no text. (A condition on it)

It's very limiting to think that all events are one-time only. Calendar systems are used for booking rooms and equipment as well as to advertise weekly and monthly meetings. Plone should come equipped with a calendar that has a nice user-interface for repeating events.

The CMFNotification product looks good, but this functionality should be a core feature of plone for any content (pages, folders, comments...). I'd like my users to be able to manage their subscriptions to content items in the site. Notify me by pushing out a twitter message, or emailing me.

a control on each page to instantly change your access role so you can browse around the site as you only had that role. Useful testing if you have set the right permissions.

Plone's dashboard should become more of a dashboard and less of a collection of portlets. The administrator should be able to set up a default set of portlets, and lock it down if required.

The default dashboard should include more activity-oriented content, such as "my recent items", "my recent workflow submissions", and an "inbox" of messages from the system, e.g. workflow changes with reviewer notes, or notifications of changes to content items the user is "watching".

The dashboard should also be the first thing people see when logging in by default.

When Plone is installed it should be setup with standard maintenance schedule so it effortless would run without interference.
These tasks could include: repacking the database, restarting Zope Server maybe even 3th party proxies or HTTP-accelerators.
I think it would improve the experience especially for newbies(myself one of them) who doesn't have the knowledge of cron job.

MIT's Exhibit system offers extremely useful and powerful visualization based on viewing the same data as timelines, maps, and faceted queries. http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/ Having this capability would be a huge win for Plone which could be used in many different ways

Out of the box, Plone should support mobile device presentation using mobile templates that are more optimized for devices such a the iPhone/ blackberry, etc.

Out of the box it should be possible to import and export content in an XML format. This would considerably simplify processes like restoring part of a site, migration or reorganization of content.

It would be great to be able to have a calendar view of events. Being able to choose either view by day, week, or month.

I want to easily build a page by aggregating contents snippets from various documents/folders/other things elsewhere in the site.

With Plone 2, I used ContentsPanels. With Plone 3, there is Collage (and others).

But I DO NOT WANT a Wysiwyg interface builder, I do not want buttons and mouse clicks!

I just want a declarative formalism that allows to specify the desired page layout and the page components. I want something that is defined as a single, editable, file. In brief, I wish an api (simple if possible, but feature-rich) to set up composite pages.

Fonctionnal tests are done in doctests, so without javascript support.

Selenium has lots of limits (can't upload a file for example)
Webdriver is on os, so no limits.

Cons: Webdriver has no python binding to IE atm, but i m sure it can be done.

It should be posible for an manager to reorder the portlets by moving them around with the mouse. i.e. if the revision list is very long and you need her on the left side, you may want to put her to the bottom and not to the top of the left side.