Zope Book 2.7 Edition Development

The next release of the Zope Book will be the "2.7 Edition". It has no timeframe yet. If you want to sign up to help, please send email to mailto:[email protected] .

The plan should be for people to:

take ownership of a chapter or two
address all the comments in the chapter and get rid of comments in places you've addressed.
update any material that is wrong wrt to differences between 2.6 and 2.7.

The "prize" for taking ownership and updating two complete chapters is your name as a coauthor on the front page (as before ;-).

Another thing to do is to incorporate some of John Whitener's changes "the lost chapter" referenced all over the place within book comments.

Here are the current signups on a per-chapter basis:

Preface (unclaimed)
Introducing Zope (unclaimed)
Zope Concepts and Architecture (unclaimed)
Installing and Starting Zope (Peter Sabaini)
Object Orientation (unclaimed)
Using The Zope Management Interface (unclaimed)
Using Basic Zope Objects (unclaimed)
Acquisition (unclaimed)
Basic DTML (unclaimed)
Using Zope Page Templates (unclaimed)
Creating Basic Zope Applications (unclaimed)
Users and Security (unclaimed)
Advanced DTML (unclaimed)
Advanced Page Templates (unclaimed)
Advanced Zope Scripting (unclaimed)
Zope Services (unclaimed)
Searching and Categorizing Content (unclaimed)
Relational Database Connectivity (unclaimed)
Virtual Hosting Services (unclaimed)
Sessions (unclaimed)
Scalability and ZEO (unclaimed)
Managing Zope Objects Using External Tools (unclaimed)
Extending Zope (unclaimed)
Maintaining Zope (Chris McDonough?)
Appendix A: DTML Reference (unclaimed)
Appendix B: API Reference (Paul Winkler)
Appendix C: Zope Page Templates Reference (unclaimed)
Appendix D: Zope Resources (unclaimed)
Appendix E: DTML Name Lookup Rules (unclaimed)

Here are additional tasks:

backport some 2.7 edition changes to 2.6 book (unclaimed)
finish work on Backtalk chapter TOCs? (Paul Winkler)