Zope-Announce January 2004

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.7.0 rc2 released
by Brian Lloyd 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Zope 2.7.0 rc2 released Zope 2.7.0 rc2 is a release candidate that will become 2.7.0 final unless important last-minute issues are found. It fixes a number of issues introduced in the 2.7 beta cycle as a result of merging extensive security updates. http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.0rc2/ **Users of the VerboseSecurity add-on product for Zope please note:** some of the security-related changes in Zope 2.7.0 rc2 are incompatible with the VerboseSecurity product. Please uninstall the VerboseSecurity product before upgrading to 2.7.0 rc2 to avoid problems. It is expected that VerboseSecurity will be updated to be compatible with Zope 2.7.0 in the near future. For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release: - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.0rc2/CHANGES.txt - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.0rc2/HISTORY.txt For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: - http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Misc/InstallingZope.html Brian Lloyd brian(a)zope.com V.P. Engineering 540.361.1716 Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.6.4 rc2 released
by Brian Lloyd 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Zope 2.6.4 rc2 released Zope 2.6.4 rc2 is a release candidate that will become 2.6.4 final unless important last-minute issues are found. It fixes a number of issues introduced in 2.6.3 as a result of merging extensive security updates. http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.4rc2/ **Users of the VerboseSecurity add-on product for Zope please note:** some of the security-related changes in Zope 2.6.4 rc2 are incompatible with the VerboseSecurity product. Please uninstall the VerboseSecurity product before upgrading to 2.6.4 rc2 to avoid problems. It is expected that VerboseSecurity will be updated to be compatible with Zope 2.6.4 in the near future. For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release: - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.4rc2/CHANGES.txt - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.4rc2/HISTORY.txt For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: - http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Misc/InstallingZope.html Brian Lloyd brian(a)zope.com V.P. Engineering 540.361.1716 Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com

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LAST CHANCE! PyCon Early bird registration ends Sunday
by Guido van Rossum 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

If you're planning to come to PyCon DC 2004, make sure to REGISTER by Sunday, Feb 1. The early bird registration fee is only $175 ($125 for students). Monday it goes up to $250!!! To register, visit: http://www.pycon.org/dc2004/register/ Speakers, you too!!! DC 2004 will be held March 24-26, 2004 in Washington, D.C. The keynote speaker is Mitch Kapor of the Open Source Applications Foundation (http://www.osafoundation.org/). There will be a four-day development sprint before the conference. For all PyCon information: http://www.pycon.org/ --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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Call for Participation: PyCon DC 2004 Sprints
by Jeremy Hylton 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

Call for Participation PyCon DC 2004 Sprints March 20-23, 2004 http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/SprintPlan2004 The Python Software Foundation is sponsoring four days of sprints before PyCon -- Saturday through Tuesday. We invite developers to attend the sprints. We will provide space and network connectivity for developers who want to work on open source projects. A sprint is a two or three day focused development session, in which developers pair in a room and focus on building a particular subsystem. A sprint is organized with a coach leading the session. The coach sets the agenda, tracks activities, and keeps the development moving. The developers work in pairs using XP's pair programming approach. We have several sprints already planned, including - Docutils and reStructuredText - Plone - Twisted topics - Zope 2 and Zope 3 - Python core development If you are interested in participating in a sprint, please send mail to the appropriate sprint coach or to me. Developers of all experience levels are welcome. We are also looking for coaches for other sprints topics; if you have an idea, post it in the Wiki or send me an email. The PSF will waive PyCon registration fees for coaches of sprints with at least two attendees. Hope to see you there, Jeremy Hylton PyCon sprint chair

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Zope 3 sprint at PyCon 2004
by Jim Fulton 27 Jan '04

27 Jan '04

I'm planning to host a Zope 3 sprint at PyCon 2004, http://www.python.org/pycon/dc2004/ There is room for sprinting March 20-23. Attending a Zope 3 sprint is a good way to: - Contribute to Zope 3 - Learn about Zope 3 development - Meet and work with Zope developers As an added bonus, PyCon sprints provide an opportunity to meet and interact with developers on other Python projects. To plan this sprint, I need to get an idea of who might participate. The schedule and tasks for the sprint will depend on participant's availability, skills and intereest. If there are participants who haven't worked on Zope 3 before, I will present an in-depth hands-on Zope 3 developemnt tutorial. Tasks will depend on participants interests. They can range from UI or application development, to refactoring, to documentation. If you are interested, please contact me as *soon as possible* and let me know: - What days you'd like to participage from the possible dates of March 20-23. - What your skill level is, either as a Zope or Python developer - If you know, what sorts of projects you'd be interested in working on. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org

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[ANN] PloneCollectorNG 1.1.0 final released
by Andreas Jung 26 Jan '04

26 Jan '04

I am pleased to announce the release of PloneCollectorNG 1.1.0 final (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. PCNG is a very generic and open framework (you can configure nearly everything TTW). This release **REQUIRES Archetypes AT 1.3**. **Older Archetypes versions (including 1.2.1) WILL NOT WORK**. This major step was necessary because a lot of Archetypes hacks in PCNG 1.0.0 were backported to Archetypes CVS/HEAD. Changes since 1.1.0 beta 3: - several minor unicode problems fixed especially in the migration script - minor UI tweaks - updated german catalog files Volunteers wanted: PloneCollectorNG is fully internationalized. If you want PCNG to support your language that translate the catalog file (i18n folder) to your language and submit it to me. Note: Any user should read doc/INSTALL.txt before the installation. Upgraders should reinstall the PCNG either through the quickinstall tool or through "Plone setup". If you are planning to work with the i18n support in PCNG: you *must* have the latest PlacelessTranslationService version from the OpenTAL CVS. Running a PTS version from the Plone Collective will *NOT WORK*. If you complain about problems related to issues that are covered by the INSTALL.txt you owe me a box good french white wine!!! Documentation Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/PloneCollectorNG Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55262&package_id=96051

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PyCon Reminder: Early bird reg deadline 2/1
by Guido van Rossum 26 Jan '04

26 Jan '04

Info ---- This is a reminder that the deadline for early bird registration for PyCon DC 2004 is February 1, 2004. Early bird registration is $175; after that, it will be $250 through March 17, then $300 at the door. (Note that a week ago I announced the wrong prices for non-early bird. :-) To register, visit: http://www.pycon.org/dc2004/register/ Plug ---- PyCon is the most important conference in the year for me. It brings together the largest group of Python users and developers imaginable. I come to PyCon for many reasons: to meet with other core Python developers face to face; to hear about the exciting things that users from all over the world are doing with Python; to interact in person with Python users of all types, from newbies to veterans of many years; to hear everybody's feedback on where Python is and where they'd like it to go; and perhaps most of all to continue to encourage this wonderful community by my presence, words and actions to grow, reach out to new users of all kinds, and keep listening to each other. I hope everyone who comes to the conference will return from it with a new or renewed feeling of excitement about Python, whether they are developers, sophisticated users, beginners, or even skeptical passers-by. The Python community includes everyone, from grade schoolers just learning about computer science to renowned scientists interested in using the best tools and business people looking for a secret weapon. I'm looking forward to seeing you all at PyCon! Background ---------- PyCon is a community-oriented conference targeting developers (both those using Python and those working on the Python project). It gives you opportunities to learn about significant advances in the Python development community, to participate in a programming sprint with some of the leading minds in the Open Source community, and to meet fellow developers from around the world. The organizers work to make the conference affordable and accessible to all. DC 2004 will be held March 24-26, 2004 in Washington, D.C. The keynote speaker is Mitch Kapor of the Open Source Applications Foundation (http://www.osafoundation.org/). There will be a four-day development sprint before the conference. We're looking for volunteers to help run PyCon. If you're interested, subscribe to http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-organizers Don't miss any PyCon announcements! Subscribe to http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-announce You can discuss PyCon with other interested people by subscribing to http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-interest The central resource for PyCon DC 2004 is http://www.pycon.org/ --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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ImageTag_CorePatch v.0.3
by Marc Lindahl 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

Available (once published) here: http://zope.org/Members/bowerymarc/ImageTag_CorePatch/0.3 Changes since last release: * Version 0.3 * added ANTIALIAS to thumbnail generation (needs PIL 1.1.3 or later) * convert image to RGBA (previously RGB) before thumbnail (preserve transparency) * based tag() code on Image version 1.148, with additional fields from Plones's imagePatch.py (args are tag(height, width, alt, scale, xscale, yscale, css_class, title, longdesc), and if border is not specified, then it's set to 0. Remove any other empty/unused attributes. * added method Image.pil_tag() with the exact same syntax as tag(), in case tag is further overridden (as Plone does, evidently) README: HotPatch Image.tag to use PIL to size images (useful for thumbnails). Also fixes so-called intelligent scaling to actually be intelligent. Here's an example of using the new thumb method directly: <img src="" tal:on-error="structure string:<img src='${img/absolute_url}' alt='${here/title}' align=${alignment} hspace=${hs} vspace=${vs} border=${brd}) />" tal:attributes="src string:${img/absolute_url}/thumb?width=100&imtype=PNG; align alignment; hspace hs; vspace vs; border brd"/> What that does is try to use thumb, and if it doesn't work fall back to rendering the image normally. It also shows usage of some of the extended properties. Since only width is specified the image will be proportionally resized (same applies for height only), and the imtype converts it to PING (check PIL docs, but the most useful types are JPEG, GIF, PNG), which preserves any transparency (alpha) the image might have. Here's an example of using tag with PIL resizing: <span tal:replace="structure python:img.tag(width=200) /> or <span tal:replace="structure python:img.pil_tag(width=200) /> Note that this patch adds 'pil_tag' which you can test for if you're not sure tag() has been re-patched (evidently Plone does this)

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MailBoxer 3.0 released
by Maik Jablonski 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

Hi to all, I'm happy to announce a new major release of MailBoxer - the mailinglist- / newsletter- / mailarchive-framework for Zope. Many things changed in MailBoxer 3.0 - here are the most important ones: * added new universal hooks (getter/setter) for easily integrating MailBoxer into your applications or frameworks * added a sender-loop-limitation; fixed (hopefully) all outstanding issues with mailloops * added a mail-serialisation in order to avoid Read-Conflicts in heavy-duty-setups * improved archive-search * many bugfixes and cleanups... My special thanks goes to Richard Waid who contributed several patches for running MailBoxer in very large environments. Thank you, Richard! Hope to meet you at EuroPython this year. Where can I download MailBoxer 3.0? ----------------------------------- http://zope.org/Members/mjablonski/MailBoxer/ Please read the UPDATE.txt before updating MailBoxer... Where can I see all changes? ---------------------------- http://zope.org/Members/mjablonski/MailBoxer/CHANGES Where can I see a working MailBoxer? ------------------------------------ MailBoxer runs all mailinglists (+ a gateway for a newsserver) for the German Zope User Group (DZUG) (~ 20 lists with 400 hundred people subscribed and ~ 100 mails / day). If you want to have a look at the zope(a)zope.org-list mirrored by MailBoxer, visit DZUG: http://www.dzug.org/mailinglisten/zope-org-zope/ Keep zoped, Maik Jablonski

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[ANN] PathIndexNG 0.1 released
by Andreas Jung 24 Jan '04

24 Jan '04

I am pleased to announce the very first release of PathIndexNG 0.1 (PING). PING is though as an efficient replacement of the standard PathIndex which is slow and inefficient. The PING implementation offers (only) a very basic prefix search for object paths which is sufficient in most cases. It does not neither 'or' nor 'and' as operator and there is no 'level' parameter like in the existing PathIndex. So you can't search for objects by subpath. All queries are prefix search (means the query starts at the root element). Download: http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/PathIndexNG Installation: Unpack it like any other Zope product in your Products folder and restart Zope

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Zope-Announce January 2004