[Zope-Annce] August 28th Zope Weekly News
ethan mindlace fremen
mindlace@digicool.com
Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:41:55 -0400
The Zope "Weekly" News returns after a long hiatus. Those Zope Weekly
News
items submitted in the past few weeks are included here. The next
issue *will* arrive on September fifth.
The opinions expressed in Zope Weekly news are solely the authors',
and not the opinions of Digital Creations, The Zope Community
at-large, or the Spanish Inquisition.
You can always get to the most recent Zope Weekly News
with "one convenient URL",
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZWN/current
And Now For Something Completely Different:
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Documentation
-- by Michel Pelletier
Week of July 31 - August 4
The O'Reilly Zope Book (title still to be determined) is moving along
faster than ever. Last week saw quite a bit of editorial contribution
from our new editor at O'Reilly, Laura Lewin. Final outline
restructuring is completed, and Chapters one, two and three are moving
along toward rough draft completion. This week we'll be posting the
new outlines, structure, and chapter content. By next week's ZWN, we
hope
to have a delivery schedule with O'Reilly and you'll all find out when
you can get your hands on a copy of the book.
An interesting little factoid is that Amos and I are authoring the
book entirely in Structured Text (STX). Using the new 'STX NG', the
book
structured text is transformed into a DOM object which is used to
generate HTML (for the online content), DocBook (for O'Reilly) and PDF
(for online printing). STX NG, including its DocBook and PDF
capabilities, will be released in future versions of Zope once we
wring all the bugs out of it, for now, it can be found on the
'StructuredText-Dev' CVS branch.
Week of August 7 - 11
Last week was super busy for the book. Amos and I added over 10,000
words to the book and the Preface, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 are all
fully rough drafted and are in O'Reilly's hands for some technical
review. There will no doubt be quite a bit more polish applied
whilewe
go back and forth with O'Reilly. As usual, the entire book can be
seen online "on the Zope site":http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/.
We need your technical review too. We understand that it's a bit
rough to really get into it without the screenshots but take it a few
chunks
at a time and let us know what you think. Keep in mind this is *rough
draft* material. Please send any comments you have to
"us",
mailto:docs@digicool.com
Week of August 21 - 25
Amos and I have been quite busy on the book, and chapters 1 through 5
are online in rough draft form! Don't let the roughness scare you
off,
there is *alot* of material up there.
The Preface and Chapters 1 and 2 have been proofed by O'Reilly and
they will be getting 3, 4, and 5 on Sept. 8th. This week, Amos and I
will
be adding screenshots and illustrations to the first five chapters, as
well as the continuous process of rereading and rewriting.
As always, the book can be read online at
"http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/":http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/,
and comments can be sent to "docs@digicool.com",
mailto:docs@digicool.com.
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Zope Status
-- by Brian Lloyd
Week of July 31 - August 4
Summary
Tying up a 2.2.1 release, progress on dev.zope.org projects
Last week highlights
18 more Collector issues were closed last week in preparation for a
2.2.1 release. Bug-hunting-Zopistas-of-the-week include:
- Steve Alexander for his patches to DateTime
- Toby Dickenson who verified a reported parser module problem to
be a Python 2.0 bug
- Aleksander Salwa sent a patch to fix updating of boolean
properties
on ZClass property sheets
- BitDancer for various ZCatalog fixes
- Adam Karpierz fixed a problem with ZPublisher.Client
Thanks also to anyone I missed and to those who helped out in
verifying
fixes.
The new dev.zope.org site continued rolling along last week, with
several new proposals being added. FourThought posted their proposal
for an XSLT product to compliment the upcoming release of their
XMLDocument work. For the Zope core, Jim Fulton proposed a naming
convention to be used going forward for new Zope APIs.
Two proposals became active projects last week. Martijn Pieters'
"skinnable objects" project will work to produce an architecture
that can support alternate management interfaces so that Zopistas
can create localized versions or just experiment without having to
hack the Zope core. Evan Simpson's Cache Manager project will
introduce a generalized caching framework for Zope objects.
This week
This week we will be making a Zope 2.2.1 release that resolves all of
the known issues that have come up in the course of people upgrading
to Zope 2.2 final. We'll also start working on architecting the new
public CVS to support dev.zope.org.
One other thing I'd like to get done this week is to start on the
first of what I hope will be fairly regular series of articles for
dev.zope.org that will talk more about our open development process.
Week of August 14 - 18
Summary
Tying up a 2.2.1 release, progress on dev.zope.org projects
Last week highlights
Lots of Collector issues were closed in the last two weeks. We've
been having network problems so few details this week :) We're still
working on one last issue and then we'll be ready to make 2.2.1
final.
Dieter Maurer and Adam Karpierz walked away with the award for
prolific
patch-submitters of the week :)
Several proposals on the dev.zope.org site saw a lot of activity as
we try to wrap up initial discussion and turn them into projects.
The proposal for improved spelling of security assertions will move
ahead soon as I'd like to see this implemented in the next Zope
feature release. Work is also proceeding on PythonMethods which I
also hope will make the next feature release.
This week
This week we will be making a Zope 2.2.1 release and we'll start
architecting the new public CVS to support dev.zope.org.
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Zope Studio
-- by Martijn Pieters
Due to other project work, no news this week
"Skinnable And Localizable Objects",
http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/SkinnableAndLocalizableObjects/
This project will attempt to provide a mechanism for Zope to discover
and use different skins and locales for disk based DTML files and
provide Zope Products with localized dictionaries of strings.
Last week
- Project set up
- Initial Use Cases set up and fleshed out
This week
- Design architecture
- Implement
Although I requested feedback from the Zope Community on this project,
not many people have actually done so! When implemented, it will be
much harder to incorporate your ideas, so please read through the
project documentation and leave your comments on the Discussion page.
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PTK News, PE 2000/08/08
-- by Tres Seaver
* New PTK release, 0.8.1/0.8.2. See the "announcement",
http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/ZopePTK-0_8_1-release
Note especially the "changes",
http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/changes
and the "install notes",
http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/install
* Shane Hathaway is working on a "cool refactoring",
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-August/001337.html
of the functionality currently provided by the portal object.
* Bill Anderson is proposing a "redesign of membership",
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-August/001331.html
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Zope Web
-- by Ethan Fremen
Show Stopper Bugs
These have been the weeks of the show-stopper bugs:
First, a bug that prevented me from copying or pasting
my ZClass objects (fixed in 2.2.1), then a bug in ZEO
prohibited me from working in versions (fixed in 0.2.3)
kept the ZWN from coming out.
This Week
Zope.org will be opening up a new area for developers that
wish to contribute to the next version of Zope.org.
This will include a project at dev.zope.org for renewing
the products that Zope.org currently uses for it's
various content-objects (news items, how-tos, etc)
and work on some other products (Notably the Topic object.)
Interested parties may contact "me",
mailto:mindlace@digicool.com
or hang out and wait for the proposal.