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December 3 Zope News

The Zope News for Monday, December 3, 2001

The long awaited, much anticipated, much ballyhooed Zope News for the months of October and November is finally here! Top Stories: Zope 2.4.3 and 2.5.0b1 hits the streets, New Zope books arrive, new.zope.org hits beta, The collector is revived and renewed, Zope training and certification programs announced, Paul Everitt pays France a visit, Community involvement heats up, and much more...

And now for something completely different...

Zope News News

From the surface, it may look as though not much has happened in the past couple of months in the world of Zope. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth! The irony is that there is so much going on that Chris McDonough had to resort to pleading for help through [email protected] to get the Zope News written. Because of the volume of news, if I missed anything, please let me know and I will try to get it into our next Zope news installment!

From the looks of things, the time has come for a stronger collaboration between Zope Corporation and us in the community. Symbolic of that fact I think is this issue of the Zope News, written by one such community member. Myself and former ZC'er, Ethan Fremen, will be collaborating with ZC to help make a this newsletter a consistent source of Zope confabulations. So stay tuned!

New Zope Releases

Many revisions and re-revisions of Zope appeared since October. Here are the latest and greatest Zope versions available right now:

Zope 2.4.3 final was released on November 12. The major bug fixed was a memory leak, which hopefully dispensed with some of the uptime problems people were experiencing. There were additional fixes to DTML recursion (which befuddled yours truely), WebDAV support, structured text, and the management interface. You can download it at http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.3.

Zope 2.5 made its debut and 2.5.0b1 was released on November 28. The key new features in 2.5 are:

Preview field in Image objects
Editable File objects under 64K for text files
New User management API
User folder password encryption
Path indexes on objects
Security machinery accelerations
Document template rendering accelerations
Page Templates, an alternate page markup built-in
Distutils infrastructure support for addons
Session Tracking
New Examples

Download 2.5.0b1 at: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.5.0b1.

New Zope Community Site Gets Tires Kicked, Test Driven

On October 10, the new CMF-based Zope community site was official unveiled for everyone to check out. All are invited to take a tour of the new facilities. Feedback is needed so that the new Zope.org can be a true showcase of what Zope can do, and help us all make Zope better!

There are a couple of issues with logins that are outlined in the announcement message from Martijn Peters.

You can check out the new community site at: http://new.zope.org/.

New Bug & Feature Collector Online

After quite a long hangover following a hardware crash, the Zope collector has been born anew and has a new residence on the new Zope collectors web site. You can use it to report bugs, submit patches and feature requests to Zope.

It is rumored that the new collector will allow selected community members with CVS commit privileges on the Zope core code to accept issues posted at the collector to help offload some of that work from Zope Corp.

You can find the Zope bug collector at: http://collector.zope.org/Zope.

New Zope Books Hit Store Shelves

Two new books from Beehive and Beehive/No Starch Press arrived in November. I am proud to have been involved as technical editor of The Book of Zope which strives to be a rounded introduction and overview of Zope. You can find out more and read a sample chapter online at the No Starch Press website.

Beehive also released their book Zope Web Application Construction Kit which delves more deeply into topics such as database integration, prototyping and using products such as MetaPublisher and the CMF to build Zope sites. It also includes a CD-ROM with all of the software used in the book. More information can be found on Mark Pratt's announcement and on Beehive's website.

New Zope Training & Certification Program

To help position Zope as an enterprise level tool, and enhance the market penetration of Zope, Zope Corporation announced two initiatives aimed at promoting worldwide Zope training and creating a new certification program for Zope developers.

The certification program is designed to "provide a tested measure of competence" for developers using Zope. Information about the certification and requisite training can be found on this announcement from Rob Page.

The next training session will be offered in the Washington, DC area, January 28-31, 2002.

More information on training and certification can be found on the Zope.com website.

Zope News From "Across the Pond"

Quite a bit has been happening in the European Zope community in the past couple of months. A new French Zope site was announced, and our own Paul Everitt paid Paris a visit and from what I hear, it will never be quite the same...

www.zopera.org, a new French Zope web log and portal site made its splash on October 10. From what I can tell it looks like a fine implementation of the CMF. Kudos!

Paul Everitt, Zope co-founder and VP, was a guest at the November 23rd EuroZope meeting sponsored by Net4Any in Paris. Links to the audio from this meeting can be found on this message from Jerome Alet on the EuroZope mailing list.

On November 29, Zopera featured an interview with Paul Everitt. Paul answers questions about Zope corp., the objectives for Zope 3, internationalization, Web services, and the roles that Zope and Python play together. You can view the interview in French or English.

Coming up on December 22nd is the First Belgium Python-Zope Conference (and Lunch) (mmmmmm, lunch [ed]). The morning will consist of a meeting of Belgian Zope users. in the afternoon, Zope guest stars St�phane Fermigier (France), and Martijn Faassen (Netherlands) will speak followed by "Dinner and Libations". For details and to register go to: http://www.os3b.org/projects/zobcon.

The Community-At-Large Steps to the Podium

Last week there were some heady discussions on Zope-dev and later on Zope-web regarding various issues ranging from the state of the Zope Fishbowl to the level of backward compatibility we should have in Zope 3 to outside involvement in the development of the new Zope.org.

Here are some highlights:

It all pretty much started with Andrew Kenneth Milton's Open Letter to zope-dev
Which was rebutted by Lennart Regebro (Among others)
Which morphed into a debate about the deficiencies of the Zope fishbowl system for managing the direction of Zope.
And also spun off into a discussion of backward compatibility in Zope 3.
Seb Bacon then chimes in about the mailing lists, zope.org, the community and ZC's stake in it.
Which prompts Paul Everitt's response, which encourages everyone to continue discussion about zope.org on the zope-web list, and talks about growing Zope 10x in the coming year
Chris Withers gives his take on why the community isn't "doing it for themselves"
Joachim Werner gives us some perspective from the EuroZope community
Yours truely suggests that ZC open up the web development to the community like they did for the Zope core CVS and Paul Everitt Agrees
Brian Lloyd give his assessment of what should be done about the fishbowl, and there is much agreement
Seb Bacon responds to Paul Everitt and myself about the processes he thinks are important to a successful web project.
Alan Runyan (aka runyaga) volunteers some time, code and expertise
Paul Everitt responds to Robert Rotterman's thoughts about Zope's documentation issues and i18n, and there's that whole 10x thing again...

In short I think it is safe to say that:

The community wants to be more directly involved with Zope
ZC is listening, we just need to speak up sometimes
ZC needs all the help they can get
Sometimes we all need a little motivation

So let's each of us, no matter what our level of expertise or time using Zope, consider what we can contribute to this community, and how we can make Zope better for everybody. There are tons of ways to help, and most of them don't involve coding or understanding acquisition algebra! Make a commitment, no matter how small and get involved! Let's not waste this great opportunity.

There is now a page devoted to identifying those willing to contribute on a regular basis. Visit http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/PeopleWhoCanContribute and sign up today!

Zope.org Almanac

The Zope.org Almanac lists select new or updated content spotted on Zope.org since the last release of the Zope News.

Selected News Items

New or Updated How-tos

Migrating to Oracle from MySQL

http://www.zope.org/Members/peterb/mysql_to_oracle

Inserting less than the whole thing, or fun with slicing!

http://www.zope.org/Members/Randolpho/dtmlslice

Use External Mount With Core Session Tracking

http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/HowTos/UseExternalMountWithCST

ZEO with CoreSessionTracking and a mounted Berkeley session DB

http://www.zope.org/Members/jgrewen/ZEO with CoreSessionTracking and a mounted Berkeley session DB

Retrieving a site visitor's IP address

http://www.zope.org/Members/TWilson/GettingVisitorsIP

How to use non-ascii charactersets together with Strucutured Text

http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/howto/Locale Support for Structured Text

avoid rendering documents with an external cache

http://www.zope.org/Members/karl/IfModifiedSinceHowto

ZCatalog URL patch

http://www.zope.org/Members/lucasm/ZCatalogPatch

Zope and Python on Mac OS X v. 10.1.x

http://www.zope.org/Members/jens/docs/zope_osx

Send a vCard from Zope (using DTML and form data)

http://www.zope.org/Members/trevor/vcardattachment

Suck/retrieve data using HTTP/basic authentication

http://www.zope.org/Members/peterb/http_auth

Zope startup script for Debian

http://www.zope.org/Members/howardhansen/debianstartupscript

New or Updated Zope Products

Tab Bar product

http://www.zope.org/Members/kevinsl/tabbar

plone skin

http://www.zope.org/Members/runyaga/CMFPloneSkin

Z Website Documentation Tool

http://www.zope.org/Members/fquin/ZWebsiteDocumentationTool

XPath Methods

http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/XPathMethods

ZOQL Method

http://www.zope.org/Members/srichter/Products/ZOQLMethod

WebDAVLogger

http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/WebDAVLogger

Splitter for Japanese text

http://www.zope.org/Members/natsukashi/Products/JCodeSplitter

InternationalObjects

http://www.zope.org/Members/tmclaugh/InternationalObjects

Zope's ZPublisher Client meets Python's CGIHTTPServer!!

http://www.zope.org/Members/natsukashi/Products/ZPublisherClientMonkeyPatch

L10NFmt

http://www.zope.org/Members/philikon/L10NFmt

ZSession Product

http://www.zope.org/Members/ghale/ZSession

Lockable Folder

http://www.zope.org/Members/butchland/LockableFolder

CARS Product

http://www.zope.org/Members/donagha/cars

EventFolder for Zope 2.4

http://www.zope.org/Members/Barabbas/EventFolder

Tamino XML DB interface for Zope

http://www.zope.org/Members/struktur/zamino

MMM Shop

http://www.zope.org/Members/gittew/MMMShop

Forensic System Data Logger

http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/Products/ForensicLogger

Yahoo!-Inspired Hierarchially Arranged Web Directory

http://www.zope.org/Members/EIONET/YihawDirectory

Zope XML Objects

http://www.zope.org/Members/haqa/XMLKit

User definable filter/converter for HTML

http://www.zope.org/Members/struktur/HTML2SafeHTML

RedStructuredText

http://www.zope.org/Members/robertr/RedStructuredText

CSS-based CMF Skin 1

http://www.zope.org/Members/libertaduno/csscmfskin1

CMFGUM

http://www.zope.org/Members/bowerymarc/CMFGUM

CMFoldTracker

http://www.zope.org/Members/bowerymarc/CMFoldTracker

PortalContentFolder

http://www.zope.org/Members/efge/PortalContentFolder

Bizar Shop - ecommerce for Zope

http://www.zope.org/Members/richard/bizar_shop

EZ404: Handle 404s with Ease

http://www.zope.org/Members/abgillette/EZ404

SQL Forms

http://www.zope.org/Members/Ioan/SQLForms

Yomari Forum

http://www.zope.org/Members/samyem/YForum

A collection of useful custom tags

http://www.zope.org/Members/7x/7xCustomTags

Atshop is a product for an Internet - shop.

http://www.zope.org/Members/sergey2b/atshop

Cereal Factory for CMF

http://www.zope.org/Members/jshell/cerealfactory

Zope for Mac OS X

http://www.zope.org/Members/richard/zope_for_osx

Simple tab bar management

http://www.zope.org/Members/dgeorgieff/zMultiTab

ContentInfo

http://www.zope.org/Members/beyond/contentinfo

Back-End Persistence Layer

http://www.zope.org/Members/7x/Persistence_Layer

Parsed XML

http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/ParsedXML

Example Code for the Persistence Layer

http://www.zope.org/Members/7x/Persistence_Example

DTML Calendar Tag

http://www.zope.org/Members/teyc/CalendarTag

Bullet List Manager

http://www.zope.org/Members/howardhansen/bulletmanager

Folder Filter

http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/FolderFilter

Maillist Summary (partial)

Andreas Jung was kind enough to summarize maillist traffic for the early part of October. Although that only covers about a quarter of the time that is supposed to be covered in this News edition, that's all we've got. ;-)

http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/zope-summaries/zope-mailing-101501/index_html

End Matter

The opinions expressed in Zope News are solely the authors', and not the opinions of Zope Corporation, The Zope Community at-large, or the Spanish Inquisition.

If you or your company are doing something interesting with Zope, please submit a blurb to Zope Weekly News for possible inclusion by emailing Chris McDonough ( mailto:[email protected] ).

For prior editions of the Zope News, see http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZWN/

What Is Zope?

Zope is an open source web application server that can be used for managing website content, building intranets, and creating portals. For more information, see http://www.zope.org

Zope is built using the Python programming language. For Python information, see http://www.python.org

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December 3 Zope News

Zope News News

New Zope Releases

New Zope Community Site Gets Tires Kicked, Test Driven

New Bug & Feature Collector Online

New Zope Books Hit Store Shelves

New Zope Training & Certification Program

Zope News From "Across the Pond"

The Community-At-Large Steps to the Podium

Zope.org Almanac

Selected News Items

New Core Session Tracking 0.9 Release

Formulator 1.0.9 released

XPath Methods initial release

ZOQL Method 0.2.0 released

Free Sample Chapter of new Zope Book

Unenlightened Zopistas Guide to exUserFolder Released

Zope-XML lives!

Windows Zope Controller 1.0

New Product: Lockable Folder 0.1.0

New Product: Portable Holes for Zope

New IE Document

New Z SQLvMethod

Forensic Logger 0.2 Released

New release of PatchKit - Now includes PackageUpdate patch

XMLKit - Simple, Lightweight, XML support for Zope

zQuest 1.1.0 beta 1 released

ZBabel 2.0.0 beta 2 released

HowTo: Using non-ascii character sets with Structured Text

Document Library Product 1.0b3 Released

Zope Training in: NY, DC, Paris, Cologne and Berlin

How to build dynamic web pages with drill down capability?

ZSession 0.0.8b1 Released

make_product 0.2.5 released (new maintainer wanted!)

Wing IDE 1.1b8: Improved Zope Support on Windows

Linux4SmallBiz.com Launches Website

gvIB dbapi binaries for Python 2.1/Win32 Released

Zope/Business/Persistence Separation

SQL Forms released

New HowTo for building Zope and Python on Mac OS X

XMLKit now contains client support for ODBC Socket Server

Zope 2.4.3 for Mac OS X

zMultiTab : a quick and simple way for managing tabs

Parsed XML 1.2.1 released

CMFLDAP 1.1 released

LDAPUserFolder 1.0 Released

Bizar Shop 1.1.6 - ecommerce for Zope

DocFinderEverywhere 0.3.0 Released

ReplaceSupport 0.4.0 Released

BlogFace 0.1a released

Redirector 1.2 released

CMFLocalizer 0.2 released

ZWiki 0.9.7.2 released

BlogFace 0.2a released

Folder Filter Product released