Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 06:14:26 -0600
From: ethan mindlace fremen mindlace@digicool.com
To: editors@linuxtoday.com
Subject: Zope Weekly News June 14th
LinuxTag, the Open Source Convention, Launch of Zope 2.2.0b1, a
Docs Wiki and much Documentation work, PTK gains steam, Guido’s
time machine stolen, Improved Products page and more!
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authors’, and not the opinions of Digital Creations, The Zope
Community at-large, or the Spanish Inquisition.
The Zope Weekly News now has a “permanent home”, http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZWN.
And Now For Something Completely Different:
Coming Events
LinuxTag
There will be a Zope booth at the “LinuxTag”, http://www.linuxtag.de in Stuttgart,
Germany from June 29th to July 2nd. In addition to the booth that
will be there for the whole conference, there will be 2 rooms
available for talks and discussions on the business day, Thursday
29th. There will not be an additional charge for the two rooms on
buisness day.
We are still looking for people who want help organizing the
conference, give some talks and attend the booth. Generally, it
would also be great to know who is planning to be at the
conference. Please send feedback to “Stephan Richter”, srichter@digicool.com See “Zope
at Linuxtag”, http://www.zope.org/Members/Linuxtag/
for the most up-to-date information.
The Open Source Convention
This “enormous convention”, http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/
hosted by O’reilly, is shaping up to be pretty interesting. Aside
from the State of Python, given by Guido von Rossum, there’s also
going to be a “talk on the CERT Advisory”, http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/evening_events.html
about cross-site scripting, a web-wide security issue that the Zope
Community was among the first to begin implementing security
policies for: they’ll land with zope 2.2.
Zope is going to be at the conference in force, with:
– Paul “opening eyes to the Zope-Mozilla initiative”, http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e_sess/853
– Ryan telling the world “you can have web IMAP and
collaboration”, http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e_sess/725
– Christopher, as always, concentrating on the “edification of
the community”, http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/python_tutorials.html
Documentation
— by Amos Lattier
This Week
* We’ve released the Docs Wiki http://www.zope.org/Wikis/Docs
This is your source for information on official Zope
documentation. You can find out about all our projects including
their status and timelines. You can also see what Amos, Michel and
Stephan are doing each week. Plus, since it’s a wiki you can add
your comments.
* The bulk of this week’s work will be spent trying to get the
online docs ship shape for Zope 2.2 final. Mike is finishing up the
API docs, Amos is working on the help system framework and tutorial
and Stephan is working on the management help content.
* Mike is working with O’Reilly this week to clarify the status
of his book. If all goes well we should have a definitive answer on
making it official Zope documentation by the end of the week.
Next Week
* Next week will be spent finishing any bits that need
finalizing for Zope 2.2 that we don’t finish this week.
* Hopefully next week we can begin making Mike’s book
public.
Zope Status
— by Brian Lloyd
Summary
We finally beat the todo list and got the 2.2 beta 1 release
“out the door”, http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.2.0b1
(and there was much rejoicing!).
Last week highlights
7 more collector issues were closed last week, and the remaining
items on the todo list for 2.2 beta 1 were knocked out. The needed
hooks for non-invasive virtual hosting support were added, as well
as better Undo handling, several catalog fixes and some long
overdue fixes to the way that HTTP HEAD requests are handled that
should make Zope more friendly to various spidering tools. This
week’s good-buddies-of-the-core:
o Chris Withers and others for forcing some action on the HEAD
issue
o Toby Dickenson and Butch Landingin contributed fixes for
ZCatalog
o tazzzzz sent a patch to un-screw what I screwed up last time I
worked on MailHost :^)
Next week
Next week we’ll be absorbing feedback on the beta release and
planning for final. More importantly, work will begin in earnest on
the “opening the development process” initiative. I hope to get a
basic “Zope core development”- focused area set up, publish the
draft Zope roadmap for comment and start working out some post-2.2
plans.
This week in the PTK Community
— by Tres Seaver
* David Brown, author of “Zope Fish”:http://zopefish.weblogs.com/ZopeFishRelease,
agreed to join TeamPTK. Welcome!
* We arrived at protocol for gaining consensus on proposed
changes:
– Create a tracker issue embodying the proposal (which then
emails the list).
– Discuss the proposal in email, copying significant arguments
to the tracker.
– Finally, one TeamPTK member accepts the item, makes the
changes, and posts the patch/update.
– After a final “speak now or forever hold your peace” interval,
TeamPTK member checks in changes.
* Bill Anderson found a workaround for the problem of DTML
methods “losing” other methods inside the portal:
URL
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-June/000940.html>
* Dan Pierson checked in his patches integrating the PTK with
the new LoginManager:
URL
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-June/000937.html>
* Dan also proposed fixing “Discussable” items such that they
*always* display their discussion:
URL http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/Tracker/93>
* Dan Pierson posted a tracker issue describing the difficulty
of customizing the display of PortalContent objects:
URL http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/Tracker/94>
* Tres Seaver created a somewhat terse How-To on creating
PortalContent classes as ZClasses:
URL
http://yyy.zope.org/Products/PTK/ZWiki/CreatingAPortalContentZClass>
* Tres also wrapped up the “vision” statement for the
PTK-NG:
URL http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/ZWiki/OnceAndFuturePTK>
* Phillip Eby delivered a wonderful “motivation” piece for the
ZPatterns meta-framework he and Ty Sarna have been building (and
which underlies LoginManager):
URL
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2000-June/005323.html>
* Shane Hathaway replied with a nice “file clerk” analogy for
the ZPatterns:
URL
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2000-June/005352.html>
* Kevin Dangoor released a new Membership product, which
packages the LoginManager in a more “friendly” bundle:
http://www.zope.org/Members/tazzzzz/Membership
He is asking for testers, with the goal of re-integrating the
package with the PTK after a shakeout.
* A new discussion on refactoring some of the dependencies
between PTKBase and PTKDemo:
URL
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-June/000962.html>
yielded two Tracker issues:
URL http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/Tracker/96>
URL http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/Tracker/97>
Looking Ahead
* Re-integrate Kevin Dangoor’s Membership product
* Land proposed refactoring of concrete PortalContent and of
Discussable decoupling.
* Discuss integrating ZPatterns more closely into
PortalContent.
PTK Tracker Vitals, WE 2000/06/13
Type / Status New Closed Current
Bug Reports 4 0 19
Feature/Doc
Requests 1 0 15
Zope Studio
Martijn has stolen Guido’s time machine in order to complete a
year long class in a mere two weeks. We cannot recieve this week’s
Zope Studio information, lest we be sucked into a temporal
anomaly.
Zope Web
— by Ethan Fremen
This Week:
o AlexR’s “All howto’s” & all tips, both HTML & PDF,
have been integrated into their respective pages. Thanks, Alex!
o While the Members page remains in abeyance, the Products page
recieved a “lot of work”, http://www.zope.org/Tracker/43
with descriptions and sorting added, the “disappearance” of Digital
Creations Products when asking for more Members Products, with more
to come!
o Paul Everitt had some interesting ideas on the future of the
“Documentation section”, http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-web/2000-June/000035.html
How do *you* think it should look? Weigh in on “zope-web@zope.org”,
http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-web
o There’s between 10-20 people regularly on #zope these days!
The internet just isn’t real without the “real time interaction”,
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Chats
o The cataloguing bug “was squished”, http://www.zope.org/Tracker/44
Zope Mail
o All the zope mailing lists had a net gain of 45 members.
o Zope had a lot of churn, with only 5 net (52 gross)
subscribers and 47 unsubscribers.
o Zope-announce is more popular, with a net 13 gain.
o Zope-dev was still proving rough going for many folks, with a
net unsubscription of one.
o Zope-ptk is still in the radar, with a net gain of 7.
o Zope-mozilla held on with a net rise of one subscriber.
o And ZDP was even for the week.
Next Week
o I’m going to be in Virginia (finally) so the rumblings of
Zope-Web Geddon should begin! Lots of good ideas coming from the
folks in the “Zope Documentation Project”, http://zdp.zope.org/ Like every project,
it too has its “own wiki”, http://www.zope.org/Members/chrisw/ZopeSites/FrontPage