January 2003 - Zope-Announce

NeoPortal Content Pak 0.9a3 released - New Poll content type, quota support added
by Wankyu Choi 12 Jan '03

12 Jan '03

I'm pleased to announce that NeoPortal Content Pak 0.9a3 has been released. Most notable in NeoPortal Content Pak 0.9a3 are a new Poll content type and quota support for NeoPortal Folders. You can even add a poll slot either in left or right slot area. It defaults to the right slot area. Note that NeoPortal Folder quota support is experimental. It doesn't do any harm, though ;-) * cleaned up (2003/01/13): NeoPortal i18n cleaned up. Don't forget to re-import 'po' files. A separate 'po' file is provided for additional i18n entries to be added to your default message catalog. Some messages cannot be translated by NeoPortal Content Pak: tabs, for example. * changed (2003/01/12): NeoPortal Poll Slot randomly selects a poll from currently running polls ( 'np_getRandomPoll.py' skin used ) * changed (2003/01/12): 'Install.py' now creates custom slots * created (2003/01/12): NeoPortal Poll slot * changed (Collector #44 - 2003/01/12): NeoPortal Poll is now closable. * changed (2003/01/11): All NeoPortal Content Types now cache rendered description * fixed bug (2003/01/11): NeoPortal News Item was missing 'np_call_view' * created (2003/01/11): New Content Type: 'NeoPortalPoll', 'NeoPortalAdvancedPoll' * changed (2003/01/11): All NeoPortal Content Types are now aware of Quota restrictions ( raises exceptions when creation/addition of objects would exceed quota ) * changed (2003/01/06): NeoPortal Folderish Objects now use 'folder_workflow' * changed (2003/01/03): file call view now calls 'view' instead of 'download' * created (2003/01/03): NeoPortal Ordered Folder View and NeoPortal Article View are now separate This version of NeoPortal Content Pak requires NeoPortal Library 0.9a3 or higher, also available for download at "http://www.zoper.net/Downloads":http://www.zoper.net/Downloads. You may also download the latest versions of all NeoPortal products from CVS: visit "http://www.zoper.net/Downloads":http://www.zoper.net/Downloads and read the instructions. NeoPortal products are updated on a daily basis. It is highly recommended you download them from the CVS. - Home: "http://www.zoper.net":http://www.zoper.net - Downloads: "http://www.zoper.net/Downloads":http://www.zoper.net/Downloads Enjoy! (8) --------------------------------------------------------------- To the dedicated staff at NeoQuest, language is not a problem to be dealt with, but an art waiting to be performed. --------------------------------------------------------------- Wankyou Choi CEO/President NeoQuest Communications, Inc. 3rd Floor, HMC Bldg., 730-14, Yoksam-dong, Kangnam-gu Seoul, Korea Tel: 82-2 - 501 - 7124 Fax: 82-2-501-7058 Corporate Home: http://www.neoqst.com Personal Home: http://www.zoper.net, http://www.neoboard.net e-mail: wankyu(a)neoqst.com ---------------------------------------------------------------

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NeoPortal Library 0.9a3 released
by Wankyu Choi 12 Jan '03

12 Jan '03

I'm pleased to announce that NeoPortal Library 0.9a3 has been released. This new version fixes a number of bugs and adds a new module for quota support. * changed (2003/01/11): NeoPortal Content cache is back in full swing; code optimized and content rendering is even faster * changed (2003/01/11): NeoPortal Content can embed objects by path: __('folder/object')__ * changed (2003/01/11): 'checkNeoPortalContentReviewStatus()' moved to 'NeoPortalBaseItems' from 'NeoPortalRatableContent' * created (2003/01/11): 'NeoPortalQuotaContainer' and 'NeoPortalQuotaAwareObject' added for Quota Supports * changed (2003/01/10): Most of the internal exception messages i18n'd * fixed bug (Collector #66 - 2003/01/10): NeoPortal Structured Text Document now correctly renders headings (indentation levels) * fixed bug (Collector #65 - 2003/01/08): NeoPortal Structured Text Document now correctly renders href's and img notations * created (2003/01/03): 'isNeoPortalManager' added in 'NeoPortalBaseItems' This version fixes most of the notable bugs in **NeoBoard 1.1b2** and **NeoPortal Content Pak 0.9a2**. Note that NeoPortal Library is the base on which NeoBoard and NeoPortal Content Pak operate. Even if your NeoBoard or NeoPortal Content Pak remains the same, for example, you may upgrade their features by upgrading your NeoPortal Library product. You may also download the latest versions of all NeoPortal products from CVS: visit "http://www.zoper.net/Downloads":http://www.zoper.net/Downloads and read the instructions. NeoPortal products are updated on a daily basis. It is highly recommended you download them from the CVS. - Home: "http://www.zoper.net":http://www.zoper.net - Downloads: "http://www.zoper.net/Downloads":http://www.zoper.net/Downloads Enjoy! (8) --------------------------------------------------------------- To the dedicated staff at NeoQuest, language is not a problem to be dealt with, but an art waiting to be performed. --------------------------------------------------------------- Wankyou Choi CEO/President NeoQuest Communications, Inc. 3rd Floor, HMC Bldg., 730-14, Yoksam-dong, Kangnam-gu Seoul, Korea Tel: 82-2 - 501 - 7124 Fax: 82-2-501-7058 Corporate Home: http://www.neoqst.com Personal Home: http://www.zoper.net, http://www.neoboard.net e-mail: wankyu(a)neoqst.com ---------------------------------------------------------------

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[ANN] CMFCollectorNG 0.20alpha1 released
by Andreas Jung 12 Jan '03

12 Jan '03

I am pleased to announce the release of CMFCollectorNG 0.20 alpha 1. CMFCollectorNG is a Zope/CMF-based bugtracking system (based on CMFCollector). Major features of CMFCollectorNG: * major code cleanup and complete new skins * very generic to add new ticket properties to a tracker * enhanced tracker configuration through the web * extend usage of the CMF memberdata tool to store user informations and user preferences * rewritten transcript to keep issue related informations in an abstract format to produce different output (HTML, plain text for email notifications) * tickets can have references to other tickets (also across CMFCollectorNG instances) * dedicated views for uploaded files and references to other tickets * better roles management: o TrackerAdmins manage the tracker o Supporters can file tickets, create followups, upload files, add references to other tickets o Reporters can file new tickets and upload files and references * XML export (to be used with XMLRPC) * watchlist/monitoring functionality * Plone compatibility (90% done) * much more minor improvements (too much to mention them :-) ) Changes in 0.20: * translated UI to english (many thanks to Helge Tesdal) * reworked SearchableText() implementation * added Watchlist (authenticated members can "subscribe" to a ticket and receive notifications) * added selection window for ticket references * fixed Python 2.2 compatibility issue * added introspection support for issue properties * fixed several MSIE 5.5/6.0 Javascript compatibility issues * assigned supporters have now permission to edit the tickets they are assigned to * new popup calendar (no longer crashes Mozilla) * the last search inside a tracker is now stored inside the users session object (Zope sessions support must be available and enabled) * refactored XML support * re-added full support for confidential tickets * using "main_template" instead of "collector_template" * bugfixes... Note: This release introduces an English UI (release 0.10 was in German only). Some more i18n integration work need to be done but full core functionality is available. The German UI is *not supported* in this alpha 1 release. Full i18n integration is planned for the first beta coming hopefully very soon. Project page: http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/CMFCollectorNG/Wiki/FrontPage Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=68417 --------------------------------------------------------------------- - Andreas Jung http://www.andreas-jung.com - - EMail: andreas at andreas-jung.com - - "Life is too short to (re)write parsers" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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AdaptableStorage: Object-Relational Mapping for ZODB
by Shane Hathaway 10 Jan '03

10 Jan '03

The first alpha release of AdaptableStorage is ready. AdaptableStorage lets you store ZODB objects in your own database and in your format, without using special content classes. You can use a filesystem directory, a relational database, or whatever kind of database you might have as a ZODB. This is very different from all previous solutions. LocalFS, ExtFile, CMF directory views, and other similar products require you to use special content classes that store themselves outside the ZODB. OracleStorage and CVSFile store all objects as pickles. Other solutions have similar issues. AdaptableStorage, however, reuses as much of ZODB as possible to achieve orthogonal persistence to arbitrary databases and formats. At this time, AdaptableStorage comes with two default mappings, a Zope2-filesystem mapping and a Zope2-PostgreSQL mapping. These mappings demonstrate AdaptableStorage and provide a pattern for creating your own mappings. Version 0.4 is an alpha release. There is enough documentation to get started. You will need to download version 1.0.2 of the DBTab product, also released today. http://hathaway.freezope.org/Software/AdaptableStorage http://hathaway.freezope.org/Software/DBTab Comments and questions are welcome. Shane

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Zope Training - San Jose, CA February 17-20, 2003
by Rob Page 10 Jan '03

10 Jan '03

We are pleased to announce that CIGNEX Technologies, Inc., a Zope® Corporation training partner, has scheduled Zope Training in San Jose, CA February 17 through February 20, 2003. Additional information and participation details are available at: http://www.cignex.com/site/Services/ZopeTraining/index_html

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Zwiki 0.14 released
by Simon Michael 10 Jan '03

10 Jan '03

In december we had a mailin.py rewrite. If you don't use mailin, no need to upgrade. After installing this you'll want to click your external method's save button to update it. Note this version of mailin.py drops the special virtual host support. Changes Mail * a rewritten mailin.py with tweaked delivery rules and unit tests. Fixes IssueNo0376. * be more fussy about recognizing a recipient real name as a page name * bracketed free form names in the subject are now also recognized (it will use the first bracketed thing found) Download: http://zwiki.org/releases/ZWiki-0.14.0.tgz or http://zope.org/Members/simon/ZWiki/ZWiki-0.14.0.tgz Happy new year all, -Simon

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Zope.org and New zope.org status
by Guido van Rossum 09 Jan '03

09 Jan '03

Here are Zope Corporation's status reports from zope.org and the "new zope.org" effort. We haven't been keeping the community up to date very frequently regarding our efforts to improve these sites, for which our apologies. From now on we'll try to do better. Apologies for the cross-posting; please direct followups to zope-web(a)zope.org. First the zope.org status report. The big news here is that we now have a (part-time) paid webmaster, Jeffrey Shell. (Some of you may already have noticed this, but AFAICT it was never officially announced.) Jeffrey has calmly and quietly been gardening the zope.org website, adding a link here, cleaning up a page there. To reach Jeffrey, send email to webmaster(a)zope.org. Next, the new zope.org effort. When we last reported on this, we had hired Sidnei da Silva to convert the old site to a more recent version of Zope and CMF. The site will also get a new look (based on the contest winner (similar to www.zope.ch) We're glad to report that Sidnei has been very active, and we expect he'll be ready to go live with the new site next month, despite having spent three weeks in the hospital with pneumonia. Here's a more detailed status report from Sidnei: Milestone Three: - Update ZWiki to latest version -- This was already done before I went to the hospital. Of course ZWiki development continued, and I updated it again this monday to get all fixes. There is still some work regarding UI to be done (converting backlinks, history and subscribe pages to ZPT). Milestone Four: - Create custom replacements, based on CMFDefault for UseCases, ZSP, etc. -- Not done yet. - CMFPackage -- Its working and funcional. Still needs UI work (integrating a mockup that was done by Olivier (?) with the Software Package view). Milestone Five: - Replace Software Product -> CMFPackage -- Migration script is working very nicely with this. Some manual work will be required for organizing /Products/Zope, which has a folder for each version released plus a folder for each hotfix. - Replace Tracker -> CMFCollector -- I feel like we need to discuss this one a bit. Reason: there is now a new and improved collector, CMFCollectorNG, which was developed by Andreas Jung based on CMFCollector. It looks worth using and contains great improvements - Replace UseCases/ZSP -> Custom CMF-Aware types -- Not done yet. - Consolidate ZCatalogs -- Based on some preliminar tests, I feel that we may need a better approach to this. Seems like theres no *big* speed improvement in using ZCTextIndex when used together with slower indexes, at least with the out of the box CMF search script and having *all* the content indexed at 'portal_catalog'. However, the search results seem to be a lot more meaningful. So, this item 'just works', but may need optimization. Milestone Six - UI work. Make a "Useable" skin that will be replaced later -- Im working on this right now, specially on CMFPackage and CMFBackTalk. I already adapted the template to be automagically shared between ZPT and DTML skins, and thats a great improvement cause it will allow us to reuse a lot of things from the old site without big modifications. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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ANNOUNCE: Pound - reverse proxy and load balancer - v1.1
by Robert Segall 08 Jan '03

08 Jan '03

This is to announce the release of Pound v1.1. New in this release: - improved auto-configuration. Pound compiles now correctly on more platforms, including various *BSD. - new: LogLevel 3 for Apache-compatible "combined log format" (should be easier for automated tools). - Pound no longer asks for a client certificate in HTTPS unless it is really required. - much improved stability; new monitor process to watch and restart the real process if necessary. - better handling of the 'Connectio: close' header, resulting in fewer problems with IE 5+. - possibility to listen on all available interfaces, including dynamic changing IP addresses. - a few minor bug fixes. Most notably a work-around for a bug in the threads library on OpenBSD 3.2. - new support for HTTPS for Zope 2.6 (same as previously available for 2.5.1) The software is at version 1.1 (production quality). Further testing (especially under heavy loads), improvements and suggestions are welcome. What is Pound (from the Web page) - a reverse-proxy: it passes requests from client browsers to one or more back-end servers. - a load balancer: it will distribute the requests from the client browsers among several back-end servers, while keeping session information. - an SSL wrapper: Pound will decrypt HTTPS requests from client browsers and pass them as plain HTTP to the back-end browsers. - an HTTP/HTTPS sanitizer: Pound will verify requests for correctness and accept only well-formed ones. - an HTTP/1.1 to 1.0 proxy. - a fail-over-server: should a back-end server fail, Pound will take note of the fact and stop passing requests to it until it recovers. - a request redirector - it will pass client requests to separate groups of servers, based on required URL and the presence or absence of headers (pattern matching) Pound was specifically developed to serve as a front-end for multiple instances of Zope running on top of a common ZEO storage, but can be used with any other web server. A patch for the Python source of z2.py is available as part of the distribution to allow using Pound's SSL capabilities. Pound is currently in use in several medium to large volume sites and seems to be holding up quite well: largest reported site does about 3.5 million requests per day, peaking at over 300 requests per second. The speed is well superior to other, equivalent solutions, the configuration is much simpler and the necessary resources (CPU, RAM, disk) are much, much lower. Pound is distributed under the GPL. For further information, download, etc. please see http://www.apsis.ch/pound Enjoy and let me know how it works for you. -- Robert Segall Apsis GmbH Postfach, Uetikon am See, CH-8707 Tel: +41-1-920 4904

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Get paid to write about Zope!
by ZopeMag 08 Jan '03

08 Jan '03

Hello all, ZopeMag, the only Magazine devoted exclusively to Zope, is looking for freelance writers. At the beginning of February "ZopeMag" will resume regular publication and feature interviews, tutorials, product reviews -- every two weeks. To find out more about writing for ZopeMag please visit our "Write for ZopeMag" page. http://www.zopemag.com/writefor.html Regards, The ZopeMag Staff -- ZopeMag - the only magazine devoted to Zope!

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Squishdot 1.5.0 Released!
by Chris Withers 08 Jan '03

08 Jan '03

Squishdot 1.5.0 is now available from http://www.squishdot.org/Download. I'm pleased to announce that this release works with Zope 2.6.0 although, if upgrading, please upgrade to Squishdot 1.5.0 *before* you upgrade to Zope 2.6.0! The following changes were made: - Can now edit the date of postings. - Uses Strip-o-Gram 1.4, the latest version. - A few bugfixes and improvments in documentation. See http://squishdot.org/Documentation/Changes for full details. If you run into problems, remember Squishdot has a mailing list at YahooGroups and a bug collector on SourceForge. cheers, Chris

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