October 25th Zope Weekly News
Thanks to community reviewers of the Zope Book, Zope has a
Process, Replicating ZEO Servers, XHTML comingles with HiperDOM,
and silly cloak and daggers stuff, all in this week’s ZWN.
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And Now For Something Completely Different:
Documentation
by Michel Pelletier
No time really to write a comprehensive report, we’re in the
final crunch! I would however like to take a moment to recognize
our official community technical reviewers:
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Tom Deprez
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Dwayne Morrison
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Kathy Hester
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Michael Bernstein
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Bill Anderson
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Tom Deprez
Thanks to everyone who volunteered to become an O’Reilly
reviewer. We wish we could have picked you all; everyone was very
qualified. Screenshots are one their way!
Zope Status
by Brian Lloyd
Summary
Projects and Process
Recent News
Last week saw some new active projects added to dev.zope.org.
Jeffrey Shell’s “Write Locking” project will add some missing
infrastructure to support DAV-aware Web tools that require DAV
locking support on the server.
Jim Fulton added the “ZEO Storage Replication” project, which
will allow “distributed commit” and prevent ZEO storage servers
from being a single point of failure. If you enjoy playing in the
deep end of the pool, check this project out! :^)
The project formerly known as “XHTMLTemplates” has now been
changed to “HiperDom Templates” in the active projects area –
Hiperlogica will be taking the lead on this and we at DC will be
working closely with them to put this project on the fast track.
Zopistas interested in this project to add XMLC-like templating to
Zope should visit the new HiperDom development home and get their
licks in now while the requirements are being formalized.
Though I talked about this last week, Michel has released alpha
one of the upcoming Zope book
Now is the time to get him your feedback. Documentation has been
an albatross for Zope for a long time and this book is a huge
opportunity to rectify that – please do your part in making it the
best it can be by taking an early look and contributing your
thoughts or concerns!
Near Future
I have a todo list for a 2.2.3 release (expect that in the next
few weeks). Work will also be proceeding on several of the items on
the Zope 2.3 plan (which is available on dev.zope.org).
We have also recently done an internal review of how things have
been going on dev.zope.org and identified some general problems
that we want to fix. A big one is the difficulty of finding out
what is going on and what the status of various things are “at a
glance”. Lisa Reushling who recently joined the DC team will be
working on streamlining the site and the process on
dev.zope.org.
Zope Web
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by Ethan Fremen