December 2005 - Zope-Announce

Zope 3.2.0 beta 2 released!
by Stephan Richter 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

The Zope 3 development team is proud to announce Zope 3.2.0 beta 2. Zope 3 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. It is our opinion that Zope 3 is more than ready for production use, which is why we decided to drop the 'X' for experimental from the name. We will also continue to work on making the transition between Zope 2 and Zope 3 as smooth as possible. As a first step, Zope 2.8 includes Zope 3 features in the form of Five. This is a long term effort. We're not there yet. **You can't run Zope 2 applications in Zope 3.** Downloads http://zope.org/Products/Zope3 Installation instructions for both Windows and Un*x/Linux are now available in the top level 'README.txt' file of the distribution. The binary installer is recommended for Windows. Zope 3.2 requires Python 2.4.2 to run. You must also have zlib installed on your system. Most Important Changes Since 3.2b1 New features - Added an option to mkzopeinstance to create instances that use ZServer, rather than Twisted. - Changed the way returning large results is handled. Applications can now simply return files to the publisher. Bug Fixes - Added input buffering to the twisted integration - Fixed the plumbing in ZServer so that attempts to return large output efficiently using iterators can actually succeed. For a complete list of changes see the 'CHANGES.txt' file. Resources - "Zope 3 Development Web Site":http://dev.zope.org/Zope3 - "Zope 3 Dev Mailing List":http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-dev - "Zope 3 Users Mailing List":http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users - IRC Channel: #zope3-dev at irc.freenode.net Acknowledgments Thanks goes to everyone that contributed. Enjoy! The Zope 3 Development Team

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[ANN] Zope 2.9.0 beta 2 released
by Andreas Jung 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

Hi all, on behalf of Zope Corporation and the Zope community I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.9.0 beta 2 (the x-mas release) You can download it from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.9.0b2/ Some new features of Zope 2.9: - ZODB 3.6 - Five 1.2 - integration for Zope 3 events for object creation and deletion - Zope 3 i18n integration for page templates For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt files for the release: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.9.0b2/CHANGES.TXT Please bring all the bugs you have found to the Zope bugtracker: "http://collector.zope.org/Zope":http://collector.zope.org/Zope For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/InstallingZope.stx Support Python versions: Zope 2.9 requires Python 2.4.2 (Python 2.4.1 is still acceptable). Older Python versions are no longer supported. Thanks to all being involved in this release. -- Andreas Jung (andreas at zopyx dot com)

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Zope/CMF developer required
by FAIRS, Dan, FM 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi, The Royal Bank of Scotland is looking to recruit a contract developer to join the Corporate Markets Content Management System development team. The successful candidate will meet or exceed the following requirements: - 3 years experience developing with Python, Zope and the CMF - 3 years working with standards-compliant HTML and CSS - 1 year developing on and administering Red Hat Linux (preferably RHEL) and Apache - Demonstrable experience of working with and scaling high volume Zope sites - Understanding of the OSS model, with evidence of working with the community The following experience is also useful: - Development with Plone and Archetypes - Zope 3 development experience - JavaScript development experience - Experience with Subversion - Experience developing accessible web sites; in particular with UK DDA legislation and WAI standards - Exposure to test-first methodologies The successful candidate will be able to communicate with both technical and non-technical users, and will be expected to undertake tasks such as requirements gathering, coding, troubleshooting, and peer review. The role is based in Central London (UK) to start early 2006. Rate in the region of £370/day. If you are interested, please mail your CV/resume to me - dan.fairs(a)rbos.com. I shall aim to respond during January 2006. Cheers, Dan -- dan.fairs(a)rbos.com | FM IT | Royal Bank of Scotland plc *********************************************************************************** The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. Registered in Scotland No 90312. Registered Office: 36 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh EH2 2YB. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Internet e-mails are not necessarily secure. The Royal Bank of Scotland plc does not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent. Whilst all reasonable care has been taken to avoid the transmission of viruses, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that the onward transmission, opening or use of this message and any attachments will not adversely affect its systems or data. No responsibility is accepted by The Royal Bank of Scotland plc in this regard and the recipient should carry out such virus and other checks as it considers appropriate. Visit our websites at: http://www.rbs.co.uk/CBFM http://www.rbsmarkets.com ********************************************************************************

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Final reminder: Zope Foundation IRC, Tue, Dec 20, 1p (US/EST)
by Rob Page 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hello everyone: Here is a final reminder of the upcoming IRC to discuss the Zope Foundation documents. Please join us! Details follow: Who: Zope Community What: IRC to discuss Zope Foundation formation documents. Where: #zope on irc.freenode.net When: Tue, Dec 20, 100p - 230p (US/EST) US/EST is GMT-5. -- Rob Page V: 540 361 1710 Zope Corporation F: 703 995 0412

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[ANN] Zope 2.8.5 released
by Andreas Jung 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

Hi all, on behalf of Zope Corporation and the Zope community I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.8.5. You can download Zope 2.8.5 from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.5/ Some new features of Zope 2.8: - ZODB 3.4 with MVCC (multi version concurrency control) support. MVCC solves nearly every problem with ZODB read-conflict errors which is very important for high-traffic Zope sites. - Extension Classes were rewritten as Python new-style classes making all features of Python new-style classes available in Zope objects. This includes support for cyclic garbage collection. - Integration of Zope 3 technologies through Five (see http://codespeak.net/z3/five/) For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt files for the release: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.5/CHANGES.txt See also: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/Zope2.8/OverView Please bring all the bugs you have found to the Zope bugtracker: http://collector.zope.org/Zope":http://collector.zope.org/Zope For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/InstallingZope.stx Please also keep in mind that Zope 2.8.5 requires Python 2.3.5. Zope 2.8.5 is not certified for any Python 2.4.x versions. So using Python 2.4 is neither recommended nor supported and any related questions or problems are likely to be ignored until 2.4 is an officially supported Python version for Zope. -- Andreas Jung (andreas at zopyx dot com)

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Zope Foundation IRC Reminder (Tue, Dec 20, 1p US/EST)
by Rob Page 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

Hello everyone: I wanted to send a reminder about the upcoming IRC to discuss the formation of the Zope Foundation. This upcoming IRC session is the second of two community IRCs to collect impressions and opinions before we turn the remaining formation tasks over to the Software Freedom Law Center. Hope to see you there! Who: Zope Community What: IRC to discuss Zope Foundation formation documents. Where: #zope on irc.freenode.net When: Tue, Dec 20, 100p - 230p (US/EST) US/EST is GMT-5. NOTE: This time reflects a *change* from the originally scheduled time -- please make sure you've updated your calendars. Regards, Rob -- Rob Page V: 540 361 1710 Zope Corporation F: 703 995 0412

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Stepper 1.4.1 Released!
by Chris Withers 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

Stepper is a framework for performing asynchronous tasks on Zope servers. This is a bug fix release that corrects some problems with the 1.4.0 release. The major bugs fixed for this release were: - Write conflict errors are now handled in the same way as read conflict errors. - Stepper is no longer left locked if a conflict error occurs. - Nothing is now logged to the console in quiet mode, even with Zope 2.8. Several other small bugs were also fixed. 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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Zwiki contributor policy update
by Simon Michael 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

Hi all! I'm slightly burned out and bored with certain areas of Zope 2 Zwiki development. I think the product will provide some value for a while yet, and it's not too late to shake things up and make a bigger splash. If we don't do this during the period of Zwiki & Zope 2's relevance, our good work will bring less benefit than it might have. So I'm putting out a call for help. I'd really like to see more people take on development of Zwiki. What are the roadblocks - of my making, and otherwise - to a more active Zwiki developer community ? For one thing I needed to nail down some copyright/license issues more explicitly, to make contributing and accepting contributions more of a no-brainer. Here's my latest thinking: LICENSE Much Zope code uses the ZPL. We want to maximize code sharing and participation with the whole Zope community. Much of the rest of the FOSS world uses the GPL, and the same goes for them. Dual GPL/ZPL licensing may seem a good option, but I'm convinced it's not worth the added complexity, legal uncertainty and fragmentation; either straight GPL or straight ZPL is preferable. GPL is the mainstream license for the future IMHO, I think it's still the best option, and I have no plan to leave it. Also I think we should adopt GPLv3? <http://zwiki.org/PolicyAnnouncementDraft/createform?page=GPLv3> when it's ready. That said, there's now clear policy allowing non-GPL code to be added to Zwiki if necessary (below). Also I remain open to license exemption requests from Zope developers. COPYRIGHT I no longer think the single copyright holder policy is best for this project, and I'm going to drop it. I am changing the main repo's policy to multiple copyright holders (& allowing multiple licenses), with the simple condition that the overall project manager is assigned the right to relicense to newer license versions. The powerful darcs revision control system (together with new CONTRIBUTORS list) should help us to keep track of copyright & licensing status and even remove problematic commits later if needed. CONTRIBUTOR'S AGREEMENT To ensure that everyone gets proper credit for their work; a clear audit trail and legal status for the project; and that the project can remain license-compatible with other free & open-source software in future, I have added a very simple contributor agreement/contributor list: http://zwiki.org/repos/ZWiki/CONTRIBUTORS.txt . All Zwiki contributors should read and consider signing this file, to help us meet these goals. You can follow this easy procedure to add your name to the glorious list: (install darcs if needed, see http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki/CategoryBinaries) darcs get --partial http://zwiki.org/repos/ZWiki cd ZWiki echo "- Your Name <your@email>" >>CONTRIBUTORS.txt darcs record -a -m"signed it" CONTRIBUTORS.txt (enter your name & email address again) darcs send This will become the authoritative list of code committers (at least), and I'll be working to make sure all of you are listed properly. Many have donated their time and creativity over the years - this list will make that clearer. All comments, help and other ideas welcome. And I hope to see some of you online or off. Happy holidays, and thanks -Simon

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Zope Foundation IRC - Reminder
by Rob Page 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

Hello everyone: I wanted to send a brief reminder about the upcoming IRC to discuss the formation of the Zope Foundation. Hope to see you there! 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. Regards, Rob -- Rob Page V: 540 361 1710 Zope Corporation F: 703 995 0412

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[ANN] TextIndexNG 3.1.3 released
by Andreas Jung 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

I am pleased to announce the release of TextIndexNG V 3.1.3. TextIndexNG V 3 is a complete new implementation based on Zope 3 technologies and can be used both in Zope 2.8 or in Zope 3. What's new? - multi-field indexing and query support - multi-lingual support - configurable converters (through ZCML) - new indexing API (allowing you to hook your custom content types with TextIndexNG through Zope 3 adapters). Changes in V 3.1.3: - some fixed in the Plone integration introduced in V 3.1.2 Requirements: - Zope 2.8+, Zope 3.1+ Download: http://sf.net/projects/textindexng Project page: http://opensource.zopyx.biz/OpenSource/TextIndexNG3 For installation and documentation issues refer to doc/README.txt from the archive. It's basically the same procedure as with former versions except you *need* to recompile the extension modules. Windows binaries of the required extension modules are currently not available (any volunteers?). TextIndexNG V 3 is published under the ZPL. Andreas Jung ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - Andreas Jung ZOPYX Software Development and Consulting - - E-mail: info(a)zopyx.com Web: www.zopyx.com - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -

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