History for WeekEnding15June2000

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This week in the PTK Community

 * David Brown, author of
   "Zope Fish":http://zopefish.weblogs.com/ZopeFishRelease,
   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",
    http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-June/000940.html
   for the problem of DTML methods "losing" other methods inside
   the portal.

 * Dan Pierson "checked in",
     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-June/000937.html
   his patches integrating the PTK with the new LoginManager.

 * Dan also proposed fixing "Discussable" items such that they *always*
   "display their discussion",
    <URL http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/Tracker/93>

 * Kevin Dangoor posted a "tracker issue",
     http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/Tracker/94
   describing the difficulty of customizing the display of PortalContent
   objects.

 * Tres Seaver created a somewhat terse How-To on "creating PortalContent
   classes as ZClasses",
     http://yyy.zope.org/Products/PTK/ZWiki/CreatingAPortalContentZClass

 * Tres also wrapped up the "vision statement",
     http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/ZWiki/OnceAndFuturePTK
   for the PTK-NG:

 * Phillip Eby delivered a wonderful "motivation piece",
    http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2000-June/005323.html
   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",
     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2000-June/005352.html
   for explaining the ZPatterns.

 * Kevin Dangoor released a new "Membership product",
     http://www.zope.org/Members/tazzzzz/Membership
   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",
     http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-June/000962.html
   between PTKBase and PTKDemo broke out, yielding two Tracker issues:

    - http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/Tracker/96

    - http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/Tracker/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

 Here is is the current state of the tracker::

  Type / Status   New     Closed     Current

    Bug Reports    4         0          19

    Feature/Doc
       Requests    1         0          15