November 2005 - Zope-Announce

Stepper 1.4.0 Released!
by Chris Withers 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Stepper is a framework for scripting and running asynchronous tasks on Zope servers. This is a new release fixing several bugs and introducing some minor new features. The major changes for this release were: - A bug was fixed which prevented run.py from being used. - Chains can now be nested within chains. - Transaction control is tighter, making sure objects aren't left in an inconsistent state. - Error handling and progress feedback have been improved. For more information, please see: http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/zope/stepper cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

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Vancouver Python and Zope User Group: Dec 6th
by Andy McKay 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Brett Cannon: What's new in Python 2.5 A review of all the funky new features we can look forward to in upcoming Python 2.5 releases ActiveState, 7pm, Dec 6th. More info: http://www.vanpyz.org -- Andy McKay Enfold Systems, LLC http://www.enfoldsystems.com

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Zope Foundation draft docs available for review/comment
by Rob Page 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

Hello everyone: We have published a draft set of formation documents for the Zope Foundation. A zip file of the complete set of docs is available online at: o http://tinyurl.com/7crf8 The next steps in the process are: o Community review, comment, incorporate feedback cycle(s) (one or two?) o Submit final drafts to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) for iteration/editing/polishing o Form the Foundation! :^) Please participate in the review and comment period. You can do so via IRC and/or email. o IRC: We have scheduled the following IRCs to discuss the docs in real time: Who: Zope Community What: IRC to discuss Zope Foundation formation documents. Where: #zope on irc.freenode.net When: #1: Fri, Dec 9, 730a - 9a (US/EST) #2: Tue, Dec 20, 730a - 830a (US/EST) US/EST is GMT-5. o Email: We've also created a mailing list for Foundation-related topics. This list is available at: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation Please subscribe to this list for email-based discussions of the foundation. We would like to thank the formation review committee for their careful work reading, reviewing and commenting on the drafts up to this point. o Takeshi Yamamoto, CEO, Zope Japan KK o Jan Smith, OzZope o Jean-Marc Orliaguet, Chalmers University/CPSSkins o Kit Blake, CEO, Infrae o Christian Theune, CEO, Gocept and DZUG o Eric Barroca, Managing Partner, Nuxeo o Hadar Pedhazur, Chairman, Zope Corp o Rob Page, CEO, Zope Corp o Rajesh Setty, Chairman, Cignex o Dan Ravicher, Legal Director, Software Freedom Law Center o Karen Sandler, Counsel, Software Freedom Law Center Finally, Kit Blake and Jan Smith have been kind enough to volunteer to work on a FAQ. We will work to get this public in the near future. Special thanks to them - I imagine their FAQ work will increase somewhat for the next couple of weeks. :^) Regards, Rob -- Rob Page V: 540 361 1710 Zope Corporation F: 703 995 0412

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CPSMailAccess 1.2.0 released
by Tarek Ziadé 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

Paris, November 28, 2005 -- Nuxeo is happy to release CPSMailAccess 1.2.0 CPSMailAccess is a full featured webmail application for CPS3. It provides a flexible web interface to browse and send mails. Features of the CPSMailAccess include among others: - Advanced UI (AJAX-based mail editor, drag'n'drop, quote folding, etc.) - Filters for incoming mails - private and public address books - Fast searches based on a semantic catalog - Threads navigation - etc. This version of CPSMailAccess includes all needeed third party packages and do not need further installations anymore. The next public release will include: - Virtual Folders (aka Labels) - Third party mail clients filters rules import. - etc. For more functional and technical information, see the web site: http://www.cps-project.org/sections/projects/cpsmailaccess CPSMailAccess 1.2.0 can be downloaded here: http://www.cps-project.org/static/misc/CPSMailAccess-1.2.0-4.tgz If you are using CPSMailAccess with uncommon IMAP servers we would be very happy to get some feedback, please join the cps-devel mailing list at: http://lists.nuxeo.com/mailman/listinfo/cps-devel -- Tarek Ziadé | Nuxeo R&D (Paris, France) CPS Plateform : http://www.cps-project.org mail: tziade at nuxeo.com | tel: +33 (0) 6 30 37 02 63 You need Zope 3 - http://www.z3lab.org/

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Fredericksburg VA ZPUG: No December meeting; details on Jan and Feb meetings
by Gary Poster 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

As discussed at the November Fredericksburg, VA ZPUG meeting, we are not going to have a December 14 ZPUG because of holiday goings-on. Andrew Sawyers will present on Squid and Zope in our January 11 meeting (other topics TBD). Zac Bir, Benji York, and Gary Poster will present in our February 8 meeting in an all-Twisted session based very loosely on the new O'Reilly Twisted book (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/twistedadn/ index.html), with Zac concentrating on Twisted and OS X, Gary concentrating on Twisted and Zope 3, and Benji giving a lightning talk of his impressions of the book. General ZPUG information When: second Wednesday of every month, 7:30-9:00 (except not December 14, 2005!) Where: Zope Corporation offices. 513 Prince Edward Street; Fredericksburg, VA 22408 (tinyurl for map is http://tinyurl.com/duoab) Parking: Zope Corporation parking lot; entrance on Prince Edward Street. Topics: As desired (and offered) by participants, within the constraints of having to do with Python or Zope. Contact: Gary Poster (gary(a)zope.com)

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Tramline 0.4 preview released
by Martijn Faassen 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Tramline 0.4 preview released ============================= 24 november 2005 – Infrae has just released version 0.4 of tramline. This is a preview release of the tramline technology for interested developers. Tramline is a upload and download accelerator that plugs into Apache, using mod_python. Its aim is to make downloading and uploading large media to an application server easy and fast, without overloading the application server with large amounts of binary data. Tramline integrates into Apache using mod_python. The application server is assumed to sit behind Apache, for instance hooked up using mod_proxy or mod_rewrite. Tramline takes over uploading and downloading files, handling these within Apache. Only a small configuration change in Apache should be necessary to enable tramline. The application server remains in complete control over security, page and form rendering, and everything else. Minimal changes are necessary to any application to enable it to work with tramline; in fact it's just setting two response headers in a few places in the code. More about tramline =================== http://www.infrae.com/products/tramline Download tramline ================= http://www.infrae.com/download/tramline Contact ======= FMI contact Jan-Wijbrand Kolman, jw at infrae com, +31 10 243 7051.

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CMF 1.5.5 released
by Jens Vagelpohl 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

The CMF developer community and Zope Corporation are pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.5 of the Zope Content Management Framework (CMF). This release marks the latest stable release in the CMF 1.5 series and should be suitable for production use. What is the CMF? The Zope Content Management Framework provides a set of services and content objects useful for building highly dynamic, content-oriented portal sites. As packaged, the CMF generates a site much like the Zope.org site. The CMF is intended to be easily customizable, in terms of both the types of content used and the policies and services it provides. Where do I get it? Download it from http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.5 Points of interest include: - "Windows ZIP file", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.5/CMF-1.5.5.zip - "Unix tar/gzip archive", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.5/CMF-1.5.5.tar.gz - "Release notes", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.5/README.txt - "Change history", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.5/CHANGES.txt - "Installation instructions", http://zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.5.5/INSTALL.txt Where do I go to learn more? The "CMF mailing list":mailto:zope-cmf@zope.org has many participants who are active in supporting the CMF. ...to report bugs? The "CMF Collector":http://zope.org/Collectors/CMF is ths place to report bugs (please search for existing reports of your issue first!) --------- Jens Vagelpohl jens(a)dataflake.org

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Issue Dealer 0.9.93 released
by Morten W. Petersen 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Issue Dealer (http://issuedealer.com) is a issue management tool featuring a weblog publisher (client), weblog (server), WebDAV client, WYSIWYG editing of HTML and Images and more. Changes since the last announcement: 0.9.93: - Updated atom feed, to version 1.0 - Added support for enclosures - Added access keys (s for search, a for add, e for edit) 0.9.92: - Fixed bug where running update_catalog would encode content the wrong way. 0.9.91: - Added ability to add files directly when editing issues - Added support for publishing files through the weblog publisher 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! This release is sponsored by Nidelven IT, provider of Zope/Plone hosting services. -- Morten W. Petersen Email: morten(a)nidelven-it.no Phone: +47 45 44 00 69 Title: Project manager Nidelven IT (http://www.nidelven-it.no) We provide Zope/Plone hosting and consulting

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[ANN] PloneCollectorNG 1.2.8 beta 1 released
by Andreas Jung 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

I am pleased to announce the release of PloneCollectorNG 1.2.8 b1. This release introduces compatibility with Plone 2.1.1. Changes since 1.2.7: - runs with Plone 2.1 and *requires* Plone 2.1 - TextIndexNG 2 or 3 must be installed - no further support for ZCTextIndex - using the CSS resource registry - no further functional or UI changes You can download PloneCollectorNG from <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55262&package_id=9605…> V 1.2.8 b1 only works with Plone 2.1 or higher. Plone 2.0 will no longer be supported (stick with V 1.2.7 when using Plone 2.0). Bugs should be reported using the Collective bugtracker at sf.net/projects/collective -> Bugs (please no bug reports through private mail..they might get lost). Andreas Jung ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - Andreas Jung ZOPYX Software Development and Consulting - - E-mail: info(a)zopyx.com Web: www.zopyx.com, www.zopyx.de - -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Schedule correction
by Rob Page 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Hello (again) everyone: Earlier I wrote: > This process is nearing completion. We will send the > updated set of docs to the advisory committee, > collect feedback, incorporated that feedback and then > circulate those drafts to the community. > > Rough schedule: > > Nov 14: Circulate updated docs to advisory committee > Nov 18: Feedback from committee collected > Dec 25: Circulate doc set to community That last date should be NOVEMBER 25 -- not Dec 25. My apologies for the confusion. Regards, Rob -- Rob Page V: 540 361 1710 Zope Corporation F: 703 995 0412

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