June 2004 - Zope-Announce

CMFUrlSkinSwitcher 1.0rc1 released
by Grégoire Weber 11 Jun '04

11 Jun '04

I'm pleased to announce the 1.0 release candidate 1 of CMFUrlSkinSwitcher (for CMF and Plone). It can be used to switch between two (or more) skins depending on the location part of the url. The tool is widly configurable. The default configuration switches between two skin based on the subdomain of the url: * edit.yourdomain.com --> editor skin (usually the plone management interface) * everything_except_edit.yourdomain.com --> visitor skin (your or your customers CI) For those developing on localhost the factory configuration includes: * 127.0.0.1 --> editor skin * localhost --> visitor skin Although installing the tool under Plone should not affect running sites, do a test install in a development sandbox! Don't forget to enable skin switching through the tools ZMI config pages. Download it from the collective: <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/collective/CMFUrlSkinSwitcher-1_0rc1.tar…> Browse the CVS-Repository: <http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/collective/CMFUrlSkinSwitcher/> Gregoire, gregweb AT incept.ch _____________________________________ Grégoire Weber Rigistr. 31 CH-8006 Zürich Switzerland phone: +41-(0)1-361 66 11 mobile: +41-(0)79-44 11 457 mailto:gregweb@dplanet.ch

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zope.org/cvs.zope.org/svn.zope.org server move
by Andrew Sawyers 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Dear Zope Community Members, Excuse the cross post, but this announcement is important to all. This coming Thursday, 06.17.2004 we will be moving the the zope.org website, cvs and svn services to new hardware at our Northern Va. data center. Effective 5:00pm EST the creation of accounts on the zope.org website and logging in to the zope.org website will be disabled to ensure that up to date data is migrated onto the new servers. We expect this move to take ~1 to 2 hours to complete. The zope.org TTL and secondary refresh times have been updated to 1 hour. The afternoon of the move, these times will be reduced down to 15 minutes in preparation for a smooth DNS change over when the migration is complete. Ken "I'm evil, so don't mess with me" Manheimer will be handling the CVS/SVN migration and will provide more details on the expected outages early next week. If anyone has questions, feel free to let us know. Thanks, Andrew Sawyers -- Zope Corporation Software Engineer (540) 361-1700

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[ANN] TrustedExecutables 0.1: PageTemplates/Python Scripts unrestricted by Zope's security
by Dieter Maurer 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

'TrustedExecutables' is a set of executable objects unrestricted by Zope's security. Currently, it contains 'TrustedPageTemplateFile', 'TrustedFSPageTemplate' and 'TrustedFSPythonScript'. 'TrustedFSPageTemplate' and 'TrustedFSPythonScript' are registered with the filename extensions 'xpt' and 'xpy', respectively. As Zope's security checks are expensive, avoiding them can drastically speed things up. On the other hand, these objects must make their own security checks at places where access control is required. Use with extreme care! ATTENTION: It is not unlikely that this product brakes between Zope releases, as it uses undocumented implementation artefacts. It is probably not very difficult to fix things again but you will need programming skills to do so. Download: <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope#TrustedExecutables> -- Dieter

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ANNOUNCE: Looking for a few good Zopistas
by Brian Lloyd 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

Senior Software Engineer Zope Corporation is seeking an experienced, highly motivated Software Engineer to deliver cutting-edge Zope solutions for external and internal customers. Requirements *Experience building production applications with Zope and / or CMF *Bachelor's degree in CS and/or equivalent industry experience *Experience using software engineering processes such as UP or XP *Strong background in Python and Web application development *Proven ability to design and deliver custom solutions *Ability to perform challenging assignments under general supervision *Strong communication and collaboration skills *Good problem solving and documentation skills Responsibilities include: *Conduct detailed analysis of problem domains and customer requirements *Develop innovative software designs and architectures *Deliver robust software components and solutions *Contribute to project documentation, transition materials and training *Follow and contribute to the enhancement of Zope's internal software development methodology *Participate in the continuing development of the Zope platform Qualified candidates, send resume and salary requirements to careers(a)zope.com. Only candidates invited for an interview will be contacted. Position is in Fredericksburg, VA. (Must have valid working papers entitling you to employment in the US.) Brian Lloyd brian(a)zope.com V.P. Engineering 540.361.1716 Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com

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Issue Dealer 0.9.36 released
by Morten W. Petersen 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

Issue Dealer <http://www.nidelven-it.no/products/issue_dealer#enterprise> is an issue management tool featuring a weblog publisher (client), weblog (server), WYSIWYG editing of HTML and Images and more. See more at the product page: http://www.nidelven-it.no/products/issue_dealer Changes since the last zope-announce announcement: 0.9.36: - Refactored code - Fixed bugs related to permissions - Created four levels of permissions and access - Added a page for editing permissions; the Issue Dealer can now used for public (anonymous access) 0.9.35: - Added support for the multi-ping service pingomatic.com - Removed tree settings from the settings menu - Added size limit to issues listed in search results - Fixed message display bug 0.9.34: - Refactored code - Re-enabled the publisher button 0.9.33: - Fixed broken issue editing in issue browsing mode - Fixed broken title on weblog entry view - Fixed broken links on session menu - Refactored code - Fixed broken remote on weblog 0.9.32: - Fixed bug on the browse template where contents would be rendered as escaped HTML - Fixed broken filters template - Fixed broken search filters 0.9.31: - Fixed bug where session objects were unavailable due to a missing catalog statement - Fixed permissions bugs - Fixed search bug where initial result would be empty - Moved most of the interfaces from DTML to page templates - General code cleanup 0.9.30: - Made search defaults more sensible - Fixed bug where URLs containing a + were improperly parsed in text formatted issues - Enabled editing of the entire weblog stylesheet - Added a search interface on the weblog entry view - Added extra CSS classes for blog entries 0.9.29: - Merged in the WebDAV Publisher from the Enterprise branch 0.9.28: - Fixed show/hide closed button bug on the tree view - Fixed broken rendering of contents in browse mode - Fixed broken image editing in browse mode If you're interested in trying a demo, sign up at the demo site <http://demos.issue-dealer.net>. To see the Issue Dealer Weblog Server in action, have a look at The Blogologue <http://www.blogologue.com/>. :) Nidelven IT <http://www.nidelven-it.no> and others use the product to manage their knowledge and action items, it's a great tool to keep track issues in different departments for example. Try it! ;) If you're interested in contributing or starting a community around this product, let me know! Thanks, Morten

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[ANN] PloneCollectorNG 1.2 beta 3 released
by Andreas Jung 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

I am pleased to announce the release of PloneCollectorNG 1.2.0 beta 3 (PCNG) PloneCollectorNG is a Plone-based bugtracking solution and framework. Changes in V 1.2.0 beta 1 (beta2 was never officially released): - critical bugfix in the !SchemaEditor - Users removed from some acl_users folder did show up in the staff configuration - adding a new issue through the dropdown menu instead through the PCNG portlet did not work properly 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 development and consulting Andreas Jung -- Andreas Jung (andreas at zopyx dot com) ZOPYX -- Software Development and Consulting Andreas Jung http://www.zopyx.com

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ANN: Vancouver Python Workshop - talk proposals open
by Brian Quinlan 04 Jun '04

04 Jun '04

What's new? =========== The Vancouver Python Workshop is now accepting talk and tutorial proposals. To propose a talk, see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/submissions.html The deadline for talk submissions is June 15th. About the Vancouver Python Workshop =================================== The conference 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 =============== Talk submissions: until 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) 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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Zope X3 3.0.0 beta 1 released
by Stephan Richter 04 Jun '04

04 Jun '04

Dear Zope community, The Zope 3 development team is proud to announce the first beta release of Zope X3 3.0.0. Zope X3 is the next major Zope release and has been written from scratch based on the latest software design patterns and the experiences of Zope 2. The "X" in the name stands for "experimental", since this release does not try to provide any backward-compatibility to Zope 2. Download http://zope.org/Products/ZopeX3 Installation instructions for both Windows and Un*x/Linux are now available in the top level README.txt of the distribution. Changes to alpha 2 - More packages have been removed from the distribution. This includes the 'session' package and all the packages that deal with Python code inside the ZODB, such as 'zodbcode' and persistent interfaces. - Complete reimplementation of the event system to use subscribers. - Updated the online help system (not to be confused with API doc tool) to reflect the latest APIs and design patterns. - The access log can now be configured via the 'zope.conf' file. - The underlying component lookup machinery has been overhauled. Every Zope thread now knows automatically about the context. This simplified the component lookup API a lot. - Several bug fixes. - The Russian translation was completed and the German one was updated as well. Goals The API is frozen now for X3.0.0. We would like to ask all people to test this release and report any bugs or mis-behaviors! The beta period is scheduled to last for about 1 month. During this month we will try to complete the following tasks: - Fix outstanding bugs. - Optimize critical components to speed up the system. - Write and update documentation. - Add and complete translations. - Remove as many XXX comments as possible. There is still much to do! Even if you are not a programmer, you can help! Please send any bug reports and comments to zope3-dev(a)zope.org! Thank you very much in advance for your help! Contributors Jim Fulton, Marius Gedminas, Fred Drake, Philipp von Weitershausen, Stephan Richter, Dmitry Vasiliev, Scott Pascoe, Bjorn Tillenius, Eckart Hertzler, Roger Ineichen, Stuart Bishop Thanks to everyone!

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CPS 3.1.1 (devel branch) released
by Stefane Fermigier 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

CPS 3.1.1 (devel branch) released ================================= CPS 3.1.1 (development branch) has been released <http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPS3/CPS-3.1.1> today. CPS 3.1.1 (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, 2.7.0 and 2.7.1b1 (except that unit tests don't work, but it's a Zope bug, known to be corrected in the b2). It includes the new CMF 1.4.4, CPSSkins 2.0rc1 <http://www.medic.chalmers.se/~jmo/CPS/> as well as several other third-party products. Since CPS 3.1.0, the following changes have been made: * Search performance and scalability has been greatly improved; * the subscription and notification subsystem is now stable; * work on better content i18n has started; * various UI improvements have been made; * the forum has been refactored to use shemas and layouts; * work on improving the directory subsystem has started; * CPSSkins 2.0rc1 has been included. -- 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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