3.6 / User manual: eZ Systems has published a user-centric manual that explains how non-developers will interact with the system. It’s quite good, and if you’ve ever wanted to absorb the eZ mojo, this is a good place to start.
However, remember that this manual covers the default install. eZ is crazy configurable and extensible, so our installs really end up looking nothing like this.
For more on the wacky zaniness that is eZ publish, read this post: The Site Access Pattern and the Joy of eZ.
I was working on a somewhat complex eZ publish-powered site today, and I acknowledged an important point that makes eZ publish -- in my opinion -- perhaps the greatest CMS ever built -- eZ is built around the concept of a "site access." The way the system looks at it,…