Many exciting new developments within the Zope community, including the release of Zope 2.2 final, a Zope book and Guides fusion, functional Zope Studio, and Zope.org architectural changes.

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Documentation

-- by Michel Pelletier

Work has progressed steadily on reforming the O'Reilly Zope book into official documentation. The new outline for the book is online at the Docs Wiki. Chris McDonough has also posted a first draft outline for the Zope Product Developer's Guide here.

Amos was out last week for Zope Training and will be out this week for the O'Reilly Open Source convention where he gets to talk to the O'Reilly folks about the book and license issues which are still undecided.

Zope Status

-- by Brian Lloyd

Summary

A short report this week due to OSCON, but a very big week!

Last week highlights

Zope 2.2.0 final was released! Many thanks to those who helped to work out issues in the betas (too many to name them all here!). I fully expect that we'll scare up more issues as people upgrade to 2.2 - there will probably be a 2.2.1 in a few weeks to address what shakes out of the upgrade process.

Another big item last week was the "announcement of the new dev.zope.org site",

http://www.zope.org/Members/Brian/News/announcing_dev_zope_org

the first major step in opening up the development process for the Zope core and other major initiatives:

Many thanks to folks like Chris Withers, Erik Enge

(Technically not last week, but due to holiday schedule bumps) ZEO 0.2.1 was released with fixes for ZEO clients on certain platforms and several other "bug fixes",

http://www.zope.org/Products/ZEO/

Finally Nick Petrelli posted an, ah, inglorious review of Zope for LinuxWorld. I'm sure this will be a "hot topic in the weeks to come",

http://linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-07/lw-07-penguin_2.html

Next week

Next week will pretty much be consumed by OSCON in Monterey. When we get back we'll be catching up on how 2.2 upgrades are going and make some progress on some of the projects on dev.zope.org.

Zope Studio

-- by Martijn Pieters

Last Week

• Paul Everitt will be presenting Zope Studio at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention this week. In order to have something to show for, all outstanding Zope Studio issues with the current Mozilla codebase have been resolved and checked into CVS. This means the the current CVS code actually does something. =)
• Rumour has it that Paul has a heavily enhanced version of Zope Studio to demonstrate, that actually let's you edit and save DTML and view your server through it's interface.
• New snapshots have been created of the current CVS code. You can download them from the Zope Studio Product page. This time round, you get code that actualy works.

This Week

• The new snapshot will soon also be directly installable into Mozilla with a XPI script, directly from the webpage.

Statistics

• For the bugfixes one Tracker item was filed, and has now been resolved.

Zope Web

-- by Ethan Fremen

New Features:

• Zope.org runs under zope 2.2.0 final! That's right, no more CVS checkout :)
• Wikis are now searchable - and they have history, too!
• Zope.org is now behind Apache using ProxyPass
• dev.zope.org opened its doors for projects.

Bug Fixes

• ZDom didn't play nice with the security software, breaking XMLDocument. This has been fixed and will be found in zope 2.2.1.
• Using reserved names in the Interfaces wiki made it inaccessable. Renaming them fixed this.
• Wikis, using CatalogAware, seem to be indexing themselves with a path that has / prepended. None of the other products are. This required some revamping to get things to work: now they're functional but not correct. Thanks to Richard Barrett for pointing this one out.

Open Bugs

• Catalog is giving some serious pain. It is dying on What's New and sorting on Searches. Fixes due soon- thanks to Dennis Nichols and Marc Gehling for reporting this one.
• The ZopeSite product that covers many of the document types is unable to partake in the rename/cut/paste machinery.

Next Week

• Transition to ZEO, hopefully ending the "architecture" phase of the org roadmap and moving on to the next.

Statistics

• 53 net new subscribers to the Zope list, with 12 Zope and 13 zope-announce subscribers leading the pack. Welcome to the world of Zope!