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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Coming Events

LinuxTag

There will be a Zope booth at the LinuxTag 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 See Zope at Linuxtag for the most up-to-date information.

The Open Source Convention

This enormous convention 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 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
• Ryan telling the world you can have web IMAP and collaboration
• Christopher, as always, concentrating on the edification of the community

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 (and there was much rejoicing!).

Last week highlights

1. 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:
   • Chris Withers and others for forcing some action on the HEAD issue
   • Toby Dickenson and Butch Landingin contributed fixes for ZCatalog
   • 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, 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
  • Dan Pierson checked in his patches integrating the PTK with the new LoginManager
  • Dan also proposed fixing "Discussable" items such that they always display their discussion
  • Dan Pierson posted a tracker issue describing the difficulty of customizing the display of PortalContent objects
  • Tres Seaver created a somewhat terse How-To on creating PortalContent classes as ZClasses
  • Tres also wrapped up the "vision" statement for the PTK-NG
  • Phillip Eby delivered a wonderful "motivation" piece for the ZPatterns meta-framework he and Ty Sarna have been building (and which underlies LoginManager)
  • Shane Hathaway replied with a nice "file clerk" analogy for the ZPatterns
  • Kevin Dangoor released a new Membership product, which packages the LoginManager in a more friendly bundle

    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", ttp://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-June/000962.html yielded two Tracker issues: 96 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:

• AlexR's "All howto's" & all tips, both HTML & PDF, have been integrated into their respective pages. Thanks, Alex!
• While the Members page remains in abeyance, the Products page recieved a lot of work with descriptions and sorting added, the "disappearance" of Digital Creations Products when asking for more Members Products, with more to come!
• Paul Everitt had some interesting ideas on the future of the Documentation section How do you think it should look? Weigh in on [email protected]
• There's between 10-20 people regularly on #zope these days! The internet just isn't real without the real time interaction
• The cataloguing bug was squished

Zope Mail

• All the zope mailing lists had a net gain of 45 members.
• Zope had a lot of churn, with only 5 net (52 gross) subscribers and 47 unsubscribers.
• Zope-announce is more popular, with a net 13 gain.
• Zope-dev was still proving rough going for many folks, with a net unsubscription of one.
• Zope-ptk is still in the radar, with a net gain of 7.
• Zope-mozilla held on with a net rise of one subscriber.
• And ZDP was even for the week.

Next Week

• 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 Like every project, it too has its own wiki