May 2004 - Zope-Announce

[Ann] AdvancedQuery 0.1 -- flexible catalog search with incremental multi-level lexicographic sorting
by Dieter Maurer 13 May '04

13 May '04

AdvancedQuery is a Zope product aimed to overcome several limitations of ZCatalog's native search function. Like ZCatalog's search, it supports elementary index searches. While ZCatalog can combine such elementary searches only by "and", AdvancedQuery allows them to be combined arbitrary with & (and), | (or) and ~ (not). While ZCatalog supports an efficient sorting via an index on one level, AdvancedQuery supports sorting via any level of (field) indexes. Moreover, it sorts the result incrementally -- only as far as you access your result. This can drastically speed up the time required for sorting. It uses Python's generators for this (and thus requires Python 2.2 or better). More information and download: <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope> -- Dieter

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ANN: Vancouver Python Workshop
by Brian Quinlan 13 May '04

13 May '04

Vancouver Python Workshop ========================= The Vancouver Python and Zope User Group is pleased to announce the Vancouver Python Workshop. The workshop will begin on July 31st with keynote addresses by Guido van Rossum (the creator of Python) and Paul Everitt (co-founder of Zope Corp). Further talks (and tutorials for beginners) will take place on August 1st and 2nd. The conference will be roughly divided into three tracks: o Python language and applications o Content management with Python (esp. Zope and Plone) o Python for beginners More information see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/ or contact Brian Quinlan at: brian(a)sweetapp.com Vancouver ========= In addition to the opportunity to learn and socialize with fellow Pythonistas, the Vancouver Python Workshop also gives visitors the opportunity to visit one of the most extraordinary cities in the world (1). For more information about traveling to Vancouver, see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/travel.html http://www.tourismvancouver.com Important dates =============== Paper proposals accepted: May 17th to June 15th Attendee registration: June 1st to June 30th Late registration: from July 1st Keynotes, preconference sprints & tutorials: July 31st Conference and tutorial dates: August 1st and 2nd (1) See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2299119.stm http://www.mercerhr.com/pressrelease/details.jhtml?idContent=1128760 Cheers, Brian

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IRC Session
by Rob Page 11 May '04

11 May '04

Brief reminder, we have an IRC session today at 11a (US/eastern). Server: irc.freenode.net Channel: #zope On the agenda: - Common Criteria discussion (10 mins) - Open discussion (20 mins) We solicited agenda items last time via email to the following email address. Please send topics for this and future IRC sessions to: - irc_agenda_topics(a)zope.com Regards, Rob -- Rob Page V: 540.361.1710 Zope Corporation F: 703.995.0412

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CPS 3.1.0 (development branch) has been released today.
by Stefane Fermigier 10 May '04

10 May '04

CPS 3.1.0 (development branch) has been released today. CPS 3.1.0 (development branch) is an intermediate release that takes place in the development process of the future stable release of CPS3, which will be CPS 3.2.0 (stable branch). It is fairly stable, and most of the products are currently used in production, but, except for unit tests which are usually written along the code, it has not received yet a thourough QA process. Some API may also change until CPS 3.2. It has been tested and should work on Zope 2.6.1, 2.6.4 and 2.7.0. It includes the new CMF 1.4.3 as well as several other third-party products. CPS 3.1.0 (development branch) improvements over CPS 3.0 are the following: * Interoperability and accessibility improvements: switch to XHTML 1.0 Transitional and move to more semantic HTML code. This is an ongoing effort to soon switch to XHTML 1.0 Strict and to assert the degree of accessibility of CPS with respect to the [2]Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). * A new [3]CPSSubscriptions product which brings a powerful and generic subscription and notification framework for CPS. * Thanks to the many users' and clients' feedback, many bug fixes and improvements on the [4]CPSDocument and [5]CPSSchemas products have been done. Those result in more usable widgets and forms in particular and in a more enjoyable user experience in general. * Many bug fixes in the CPSCalendar (= shared calendar) product. * General switch to the CPSSchema/CPSDocument framework. Most of the CPS components are now CPSDocuments on their own with all the new functionalities and services that it provides. So Sections, Workspaces and CPSForum posts are all now CPSDocuments. * Use of the new [6]CPSInstaller product for easier understanding, maintenance, stability and third party developments over CPS. * Indexation and previewing of new document types: MS Excel, MS Powerpoint. * Integration of the [7]CPSRSS syndication product. * Integration of the [8]CPSChat chat product. * Integration of the CPSCollector poll and user input collector (not converted yet to CPSSchema/CPSDocument, though). * Integration of the popular third-party [9]CPSSkins theme creation and management product by Jean-Marc Orliaguet. ([10]screenshots here). * New translation: German, which brings to 6 the number of languages available for CPS (some of these translation may not be complete as of now): + English + French + Spanish (thanks to Álvaro Tejero Cantero) + Italian (thanks to Paolo Dina) + Dutch (thanks to CapGemini Belgium) + German (thanks to Georg Hennemann) * In summary, there have been about 1200 commits by 13 commiters since the CPS 3.0 release. CPS 3.1.0 is available at: http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPS3/CPS-3.1.0 What is CPS ? [11]Nuxeo CPS is an extensive collaborative Web content management system (CMS) implemented on top of Zope and the CMF. Nuxeo CPS enables organizations to easily, quickly and efficiently implement collaborative intranet, extranet or internet applications. [12]CPS3 is the next generation of CPS, and builds on the strengths of CSP2. As CPS2, it provides: * Collaborative publication of documents * Indexation and previewing of office automation documents (MS Office, StarOffice, OpenOffice.org, PDF, RTF, XML, etc.). * Integrated search engine * Versioning * Mailing lists * Workflow * Integrated Meta Directory * Security (based on roles) The new functionalities and features only available on CPS3 are: * Flexible revision and translation framework for content. * Single repository for content objects, that stores versions of documents. * Event service: flexible tool to manage communication between tools. * Everything is workflow-driven, with placeful (local) workflow association. Workflow can be tuned for very different purposes (e.g. collaboration vs. publication). * Portal customisation system based on "boxes" with several boxes types already provided. * Internationalisation. More information You can find more information about CPS3 in the [13]EuroPython 2003 slides See also the [14]Nuxeo web site and [15]CPS Project for more details. Getting involved There is a [16]cps-devel mailing list for CPS3 (and CPS2) developers. CPS users lists ([17]cps-users (english) and [18]cps-users-fr (french)) are also available. References 1. http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPS3/CPS-3.1.0 2. http://www.w3.org/WAI/ 3. http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPSSubscriptions/ 4. http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPSDocument/ 5. http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPSSchemas/ 6. http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPSInstaller/ 7. http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPSRSS/ 8. http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPSChat/ 9. http://www.medic.chalmers.se/~jmo/CPS/ 10. http://www.medic.chalmers.se/~jmo/CPS/screens.html 11. http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPS3/ 12. http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPS3/ 13. http://www.europython.org/Talks/Slides/cps_europython_2003.pdf 14. http://www.nuxeo.com/en/ 15. http://www.cps-project.org/ 16. http://lists.nuxeo.com/mailman/listinfo/cps-devel 17. http://lists.nuxeo.com/mailman/listinfo/cps-users 18. ttp://lists.nuxeo.com/mailman/listinfo/cps-users-fr -- Stéfane Fermigier, Tel: +33 (0)6 63 04 12 77 (mobile). Nuxeo Collaborative Portal Server: http://www.nuxeo.com/cps Gestion de contenu web / portail collaboratif / groupware / open source!

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Bangalore Zope and Python User Group meeting on May 14th, 2004
by "Rocky"Rakesh Naidu 10 May '04

10 May '04

hello , Bangalore Zope and Python User Group will be meeting on May 14th, 2004 at 6:00 P.M. *Venue: *ZeOmega #20, Second Floor,Rajalakshmi Plaza, South End Road, Basavanagudi, Bangalore-560 004 INDIA. Phone: +91-80-26632589 Please visit http://izpug.org or http://bzpug.org for more details. *Date and Time: *May 14th, 2004 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM *Agenda: *What is new in Plone 2.0 - Sunil Abraham thanks, Rakesh Naidu www.zeomega.com

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Zope.com Facelift
by Hadar Pedhazur 07 May '04

07 May '04

A week ago, http://www.zope.com/ received a significant facelift. In addition, some of the previous pages were available in PDF format only, and the entire site is now HTML, and therefore more easily searchable as well. Undoubtedly, we have introduced some errors in the process, and broken some links that people have previously bookmarked, etc. We would appreciate it if those of you who find errors on the site are kind enough to drop us a note (webmaster(a)zope.com) and let us know what isn't working for you. P.S. For those of you superstars out there in Zope-land who are looking for a job (_in Fredericksburg, VA_), we also have more prominently displayed our "We're Hiring" link on the front page of the new site :-)

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[Ann] DocFinder 1.0.3: Ask Zope for its documentation
by Dieter Maurer 04 May '04

04 May '04

"DocFinder" is a Zope product that allows you to ask Zope for its documentation. It will tell you for any object from which classes it was build, what methods these classes define, what permissions are necessary, which arguments are supported by the methods, ... Almost everything, you may be interested in. This is a bug fix release which lets "DocFinder" work better with Python 2.3. It suppresses docstring display for Python's elementary data types. More information and download <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/DocFinder.html> -- Dieter

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[ANN] PloneCollectorNG 1.2.0 a2 released
by Andreas Jung 03 May '04

03 May '04

I am pleased to announce the release of PloneCollectorNG 1.2.0 a2 (PCNG) PloneCollectorNG is a Plone-based bugtracking solution and framework. Changes in V 1.2.0 alpha 2: - major changes to the user interface WARNING: - PERFORM A FULL BACKUP FOR YOUR Data.fs ***BEFORE INSTALLING*** PCNG 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". "Documentation Wiki":http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/PloneCollectorNG "Download":http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55262&pack age_id=96051 -- Andreas Jung -------------------------------- www.zopyx.com Software-Entwicklung und Consulting Andreas Jung

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