Zope Book online, Product Developer's Guide next week, dev.zope.org lifts off from the runway, preparations for 2.2.1, Zope.org has the beginnings of categorization, and more!

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And Now For Something Completely Different:

Documentation

by Michel Pelletier

O'Reilly has come back with a good license compromise. The book will be published under an Open Content license after it goes to print, but before that, the book will be published on the web under the following license:

    This is an early draft chapter from a forthcoming book on Zope, to
    be published by O'Reilly & Associates.  The material has not been
    through O'Reilly's editorial process, nor has it been reviewed for
    technical accuracy.  O'Reilly & Associates disclaims responsibility
    for any errors in this draft and advises readers to use the information
    contained herein with caution.

    O'Reilly & Associates grants readers the right to read this material
    and to print copies or make electronic copies for their own
    use. O'Reilly & Associates does not grant anyone the right to use
    this material as part of a commercial product or to modify and distribute
    it.  When O'Reilly & Associates publishes the final draft of this
    book in print form, the content will be made available under an open
    content license, but this chapter is not open content.

    If you have any comments on the material in this chapter, you should
    send them to the authors, Michel Pelletier and Amos Latteier, at
    [email protected].

The present book outline and some content has been published Check there on occasion for any interesting updates. As usual, documentation project status can be found on the docs wiki

This week Amos will be finishing Chapter One and I will be finishing Chapter Two.

After next weekend, the Security chapter of the Product Developers Guide will probably be released.

Zope Status

by Brian Lloyd

Summary

dev.zope.org lifts off from the runway, preparations for 2.2.1

Last week highlights

A lot of catch-up last week for various DC people who attended the OSCON the week before. We have been focusing on outstanding issues that have cropped up now that more people are moving to the 2.2 final release. 13 Collector issues were closed last week. Motivated Zopistas of the week include:

• Dieter Maurer for his patches to fix ZopeFind
• Yves-Eric Martin for his patch to fix a hard-coded Unix-ism in special DTML objects created from files
• Adam Karpierz for tracking down a problem that broke remote calls through ZPublisher.Client
• Toby Dickenson for tracking down a buglet in Help registration that caused superfluous transactions to be written on startup

Thanks also to anyone I missed and to those who gave their feedback on the proposal to change custom string formatting of DateTime objects to use the internal timezone representation of the object (this will be in the next release).

The new dev.zope.org site really picked up momentum last week. There are already 18 project proposals on the site! I think we're off to a really good start - thanks to folks like Toby Dickenson, Phillip Eby, Chris Withers, Martijn Faassen and Coventry (I didn't see a "real name" on that one!) for diving in to write and provide feedback on proposals.

This week

This week we will be focusing on closing out some remaining issues in preparation for a 2.2.1 release sometime next week. Some of the things that still need to be done include:

• Fixes for some recent problems with PCGI
• Fix XML importing
• Changes to provide graceful failure if/when the object database grows over 2GB on systems without large file support

We will also be trying to give as much attention as possible to evolving and working out issues with the various proposals on the dev.zope.org site. My hope is that some of the usability-focused proposals with short timeframes can get moving forward as active projects, hopefully to be completed in time for the next feature release.

Zope Studio

Due to some problems with XPI installs, and other projects there is no Zope Studio news this week.

Zope Web

by ethan fremen

This week has had some good progress:

• The Products page has been vastly improved, thanks to the help of Dracvl (categorizing) and kalessin (Download links) and a whole crowd of other folks (configurable batch size). I plan on adding numbered page links like most search engines.
• An almost-fix for the Catalog keyError was applied, and work to kill that bug for good is ongoing.
• Added auto-focusing in the search field on runyaga's request. This means you can just type www.zope.org in the browser, and when the page comes up, type your query.