November 2003 - Zope-Announce

CMFLinkChecker 0.2rc1 released
by Christian Theune 15 Nov '03

15 Nov '03

The CMFLinkChecker is preparing for release 0.2 and published the first release candidate. Changes include: - Better usability on overview page - Stability bugs fixed - New: Manual default prefix for relative links Get it: The CMFLinkChecker is available from "the collective" CVS on sourceforge. Or from our FTP at ftp://ftp.gocept.com/CMFLinkChecker . Report bugs: If you find bugs you want to report, please don't hesitate to use our bugtracker at http://bugs.gocept.com We are happy to read your feedback, Christian Theune -- Christian Theune, gocept gmbh & co. kg http://www.gocept.com - ct(a)gocept.com fon: 03496 3099112 fax: 03496 3099118 mobile: 0179 7808366

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[Ann] epoz 1.0 beta1 released
by Philipp von Weitershausen 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

The epoz project is pleased to announce the first beta version of its cross-browser visual HTML editor! Originally written by Maik Jablonski, the editor famous in the world of Zope and Plone was completely redesigned by Paul Everitt (Zope Europe Association) and Guido Wesdorp (Infrae) and Philipp von Weitershausen (philiKON Valley). The result is a very flexible editing machine based on the following concepts: - Integration epoz was designed to be highly integrable into target products. It uses Zope Page Templates (ZPT) for the XHTML templating. ZPTs hide templating instructions in XML namespaces. That way, all XHTML templates in epoz remain valid XHTML documents and should be able to be used in similar templating systems without modification. That also means, epoz can directly be used off of the filesystem or served by Apache, without any templating engine. - Document-centric and asynchronous editing Other in-browser editors simply provide a replacement for the textarea element in XHTML forms. epoz instead focuses on document-centric editing. It lets you edit the contents of an XHTML document and dublin core metadata (Title, Creator etc.) in a compact and standard-conformant way. Upon save, epoz constructs a full-fledged XHTML document again and invokes a PUT request to the server. Being a standard HTTP command, PUT requests can be served by nearly any webserver, even Apache (with mod_dav)! - Customization and extensibility The looks of epoz can be modified without having to modify the XHTML templates by simply customizing the Cascading Style Sheets. Its JavaScript architecture has been modelled after the MVC concept. That means you may customize large or small parts of the editor without having to reimplement or subclass anything, but it also means extending epoz's functionality is just as easy. Where can I get it? You may download a tarball at the the epoz project homepage at Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=84377 How can I use it? epoz comes with a great deal of documentation already. The INSTALL.txt file in the 'doc' directory should provide a small set of introductions for Zope users. If you would like to see epoz in action without having to install it in Zope, you may either download the tarball and open 'common/epozmacros.html' in your browser or visit the following URL (served by Apache, btw): http://www.philikon.de/files/epoz/common/epozmacros.html If you happen to succeed at integrating epoz into your favourite web application server, feel free to contact us if you would like to contribute your code to the project. Equally, any documentation about how to integrate, customize or extend are very welcome. What to expect for future releases - Link and image toolbox: The original Epoz editor provided a toolbox for Plone users that was loaded in a browser pop-up window. Since epoz 1.0 puts a lot of focus on document-centric editing, it places toolbox elements such as a link or image browser and table creator right on the edit page. Results for link and image searching will be loaded asynchronously in a yet-to-defined XML format. In upcoming releases, we will provide asynronous server-side methods for link and image searching in Zope2, CMF, Plone and Zope3. - Plone integration: Although we have made an effort to integrate it with Plone 1.0/2.0, we have seen that current versions of Plone does not allow an editor to take over for document-centric editing. Philipp has made a Plone Improvement Proposal (PLIP) to provide a visual editing architecture in Plone (http://plone.org/development/current/projects/PLIP5) The proposal has been accepted by the community and Philipp is currently implementing. It is expected that Plone 2.1 will be ready to be plugged together with upcoming versions of epoz. How to report bugs? Please help us make epoz 1.0 bugfree and report bugs you encounter at: http://codespeak.net/issues/epoz/ (mind the trailing slash) Further questions? Write us to: epoz-development(a)lists.sourceforge.net We are looking forward to your comments. On behalf of the epoz project, Philipp von Weitershausen

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Archetypes 1.2.0-beta3 Released
by Sidnei da Silva 13 Nov '03

13 Nov '03

We are proud to present the beta 3 release of Archetypes 1.2.0. This release includes the following improvements, in no particular order: - Added two new classes: BaseContentMixin and BaseFolderMixin which are exactly like BaseFolder and BaseContent, but without the ExtensibleMetadata. In fact, they are BaseFolder and BaseContent stripped down and BaseFolder and BaseContent just subclass them. - BaseObject now uses getCharset to consistently use the portal charset in all places where unicode is used. - Added tests for External Editor integration. Make sure a BaseUnit is always returned. - Merged patch by Ricardo Lemmi for GadflyStorage. - Fixed unicode tests that were broken - Added a few marshaller tests (to check that both a .doc and a .rst file are uploaded and retrieved correctly by default) - Fixed BaseObject.get_size() to behave correctly w/ regards to DateTime fields and other fields that are not easily measureable - Added an optional 'values' keyword argument to processForm which has preference over REQUEST.form - Various improvements on schema migration, thanks to Geoff Davis - DisplayList is now publically accessible. That means you can import it from Script (Python) With those changes, Archetypes is now quickly approaching a final and stable release. This release no more includes a CVS checkout of PortalTransforms, since a release has been made last week. Instead, you can get PortalTransforms from this location: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/archetypes/PortalTransforms-1.0.tar.gz?d… See the PortalTransforms announcement here: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=326571 OTOH, this release includes ArchGenXML, which is a tool to generate Archetypes-enabled products from UML diagrams. From ArchGenXML README: ArchGenXML is a commandline utility that generates Plone applications based on the Archetypes framework from XMI (UML) and XSD (XMLSchema) files. It is tested with the XMI output from the following tools: ObjectDomain, Sybase PowerDesigner, ArgoUML, Poseidon, KDE's Umbrello. The Archetypes tarball can found at: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/archetypes/archetypes-1.2.0_beta3.tgz?do… Have fun and please report any bugs you may find at the Archetypes SF Tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=75272 Thank you for listening! On behalf of the Archetypes Team, -- Sidnei da Silva <sidnei(a)awkly.org> http://awkly.org - dreamcatching :: making your dreams come true http://plone.org/about/team#dreamcatcher Ignorance is bliss. -- Thomas Gray Fortune updates the great quotes, #42: BLISS is ignorance.

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COREBlog 0.52b - Zope Blog Product
by Atsushi Shibata 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

COREBlog 0.52b has been released ! http://zope.org/Members/ats/COREBlog/ COREBlog is a Zope Blog/Weblog/Web Nikki Product. Easy to setup,Full featured,Ubiquitous and Customizable! And now it has a 'moblog' feature - you can add a new entry via email! COREBlog now supports UTF-8. And PING Service started. http://coreblog.org/ping/ Features. * Moblog - you can add new entry via email (New in 0.5b) * PING to weblogs.com, etc. (New in 0.5b) * Categories * TrackBack * Object management with ZMI * Calendar interface Have fun :-). ---------------------------------------- Atsushi Shibata (Webcore Corp.) shibata(a)webcore.co.jp http://www.webcore.co.jp/ ----------------------------------------

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opensourcexperts.com
by Mark Pratt 10 Nov '03

10 Nov '03

Dear Zope Community, We are pleased to announce opensourcexperts.com ! A web application built with Zope, Apache, MySQL, Python, CoreBlog, Issue Tracker, and a whole lot of sweat and love. Take the Tour and find out why you might have to visit regularly ;-) http://www.opensourcexperts.com/Tour/index.html Enjoy! Mark,

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CMFBoard 1.2 Released
by Nikolay Kim 10 Nov '03

10 Nov '03

CMFBoard is a board system for Plone (CMF meybe :) see in actoin on http://www.cmfboard.org/forums/ Version 1.2 (changes from 1.1) * basic Plone2.0 support * moderated forums * Forum (ForumFolder) move (rename) support * forum grouping * UI changes (mole plonish) * system wysiwyg content editor * STX, HTML, PLAIN text format Tarball: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/collective/CMFBoard-1.2.tar.gz?download http://www.cmfboard.org/download/CMFBoard-1.2.tar.gz -- Nikolay Kim <fafhrd(a)legco.biz> LegCo LLP

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Archetypes 1.2 beta2 Released
by Sidnei da Silva 06 Nov '03

06 Nov '03

We've been fixing a couple bugs that came out in the beta1, thanks to the people that tested and reported, so I just made a beta2 with the fixes (release early, release often, and even more often when the last release has bugs ;). The hilights on this release are: License Change: Archetypes is not licensed under the GPL anymore, but under a BSD-like license. More details on Archetypes/LICENSE.txt. This change has been postponed for a while and was a big blocker for some people. I expect that it comes only to make life easier to the ones deploying Archetypes on commercial applications. Bugs fixed: - KeywordWidget was not behaving accordingly - BaseObject.get_size() was completely broken, because of a undefined variable - Some templates were missing a closing '"', which got lost during the conversion to the Plone 2.0 style. - Added tests for KeywordWidget and RichWidget. More widget tests to come. - Fixed default view on Article of ArchExample (was pointing to the wrong URL.) - Archetypes *should* be usable with plain CMF, though it may be some CSS wizardry to align the fields (thanks to Sylvain Thenault) Tarball: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/archetypes/archetypes-1.2.0_beta2.tgz?do… -- Sidnei da Silva <sidnei(a)awkly.org> dreamcatching :: making your dreams come true http://awkly.org Besides, I think Slackware sounds better than 'Microsoft,' don't you? -- Patrick Volkerding

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[Ann] ManagableIndex 0.2
by Dieter Maurer 06 Nov '03

06 Nov '03

"ManagableIndex" is a framework to develop managable indexes: you define via the Zope Management Interface, * how values are determined; especially whether or not acquisition should be used. * which values should be ignored * what standardization should be applied (if any) It comes with managable "Field-" and "KeywordIndex". This is a bugfix release. * I had forgotten an essential optimization (in "index_object"): an object was reindexed even if its value had not changed * Work around silly "OOSet" equality check ("OOSet" uses (Python object) identity rather than standard set equality) -- Dieter

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PloneCollectorNG 1.0 beta 1 released
by Andreas Jung 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

I am pleased to announce the release of PloneCollectorNG 1.0 alpha 2 (PCNG) PCNG is a bugtracking system for Plone. It is based on the concepts and ideas of CMFCollector and CMFCollectorNG but it is a complete re-write. One major highlight of this new version is the built-in TTW editor for Archetypes schemas. This means you can edit the complete fields for your issue (field types and widgets) through-the-web including the use of schemats etc. Another goal of the new implementation was to focus on security. So I dropped the old workflow and created a new one (which is much simpler). The codebase is very small and generic and therefore very much extensible for the future. Changes since V 1.0 alpha 2: - misc usability improvements: - simple/full view for issues - extended search mask hidden by default - staff template improved - more compact issue view - overview page for all collector instances of a Plone site - misc UI/CSS improvements ("it looks nicer") - fixed several workflow related permission problems - migration script for CMFCollectorNG -> PloneCollectorNG added (not completed yet) - simplified creation of issues through script s(see pcng_add_issue.py) - improved i18n support ATTENTION TO USERS of Plone 2.0 beta 3: portal_workflow has been removed in Plone 2b3 from the action provider list. This is a *big problem* and will be fixed in the next Plone release. To fix this: - remove the "deleteActionProvider()" call in CMFPlone/setup/ConfigurationMethods.py line 175 - *recreate* your Plone 2.0 site (if created *with* Plone 2.0 beta 3) - there is currently no support from my side to re-enable the portal_workflow as action provider for Plone sites created under Plone 2.0 beta 3 Wiki and Download: http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/PloneCollectorNG Cheers, -aj

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Zope Training in London, UK
by ibrahim Khatib 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

BlankFor those interested in Zope Training we are please to announce that we still have a limited amount of seats available for the Zope Training Week which will take place from November 24th to the 28th. You can find out more about the material covered here: http://www.openscape.co.uk/ All course participants receive a complimentary subscription to ZopeMag. This Training Week is part of the European Zope Training Tour: http://www.zopemag.com/Partners/EZTT2003.html"

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