February 2005 - Zope-Announce

[ANN] Zope 2.7.5 beta 1 released
by Andreas Jung 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

Dear Zope Community, on behalf of Zope Corporation and all Zope 2 developers and contributors I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.7.5 beta 1. Zope 2.7.5 beta 1 can be downloaded from http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.5b1 The release notes can be found at http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.5b1/CHANGES.txt For informations on using Python 2.4 with Zope 2.7: see doc/INSTALL.txt Andreas Jung

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[ANN] TextIndexNG 2.2.0 beta 2 released
by Andreas Jung 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

I am pleased to announce the release of TextIndexNG 2.2.0 beta 2 Changes in 2.2.0b2: * added a german thesaurus * query parsers: the autogenerated parsetab.py file is now created inside the corresponding parser directory and no longer somewhere else (patch by Mark Hammond) * removed stemming support * Null converter did not set the encoding properly leading to strange indexing results if used with enabled converters and a Python default encoding different from ISo-8859-1 (fixed by Christian Theune) * added FrenchQueryParser (contributed by Tarek Ziadé of Nuxeo) TextIndexNG homepage: http://www.zopyx.com/OpenSource/TextIndexNG Download http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/TextIndexNG ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - Andreas Jung ZOPYX Software Development and Consulting - - E-mail: info(a)zopyx.com Web: www.zopyx.com - -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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DeadlockDebugger 1.0
by Florent Guillaume 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Debugging a running or deadlocked Zope http://www.zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/DeadlockDebugger This product adds a hook so that a deadlocked Zope process can be debugged, by dumping a traceback of all running python processes. The dump is sent to the event log (at the DEBUG level) and returned to the browser (even though the Zope is deadlocked and doesn't answer any other requests!). DeadlockDebugger can of course also be used to debug Zope in non-deadlock situations, when a Zope process is taking a long time and you wish to know what code is being executed. DeadlockDebugger requires the third party 'threadframe' python module, http://www.majid.info/mylos/stories/2004/06/10/threadframe.html Florent -- Florent Guillaume, Nuxeo (Paris, France) CTO, Director of R&D +33 1 40 33 71 59 http://nuxeo.com fg(a)nuxeo.com

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Announce: February Zope Bug Day!
by Chris Withers 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Hi All, My my how time flies ;-) It's the end of February and that means another bug day. I'll probably be a little busy, but I'll be trying to squash at least a few bugs... What? Zope Bug Day working from http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope When? Friday 26th February - from when you wake up until when the day ends! Where? #zope-dev on irc.zope.org Come along and help if you've got a chance! Read this if you want to know how: http://www.zope.org/DevHome/CVS/BugDays cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

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Infrae releases Silva 1.2
by Martijn Faassen 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

21 February 2005 - Infrae has released Silva 1.2 today. This release contains three major new features: expanded version management for XML documents, subscription functionality for all versioned content, and an internationalized Silva user interface, including Dutch and German translations. Infrae is actively seeking volunteers to translate Silva into other languages. Version management ------------------ Silva 1.2 exposes additional version management capability to the user interface. It leverages Silva's powerful multi-version system, where content can be online while a new version is simultaneously prepared. The version management feature allows: * reviewing older versions of content objects * comparing different versions side-by-side * reverting to older versions of content * removing of selected old versions Subscriptions ------------- Silva 1.2 adds the subscriptions feature, which allows end-users to subscribe to public web pages. As soon as a new version of a page gets (re)published, the subscribed user receives an email notification. It's even possible to subscribe to changes on a content hierarchy - but only if this has been allowed using the subscription management UI, which allows for fine-grained subscribability for content. On the more technical side it is noteworthy that the subscription feature has been designed to be scalable over many subscribers. Internationalization -------------------- Silva 1.2 has now been fully internationalized. This means that the Silva user interface can now be presented a wide range of languages. Besides the original UI in English, Silva 1.2 will also ship with a German and a Dutch translation. We're eager to have contributors help with the translation effort to other languages! If you're interested in providing translations to other languages, or if you wish to test an existing translation, please contact the Silva developers at: http://lists.infrae.com/mailman/listinfo/silva-dev and we will help you get started. Upgrading --------- The upgrade from Silva 1.1 to 1.2 involves a content upgrade, though a small one. Ghosts need to be reindexed in the catalog, and Indexer objects need to be refreshed. This can be performanced by a single content upgrade. For more information see the UPGRADE.txt that will ship with the release. What is Silva? -------------- Silva is an enterprise-class CMS for managing content for the web, print, and other media. Content is stored in clean and future-proof XML, independent of layout and presentation. Features include a multi-version workflow system, XSLT rendering support, integral WYSIWYG editor (Kupu), content reuse in multiple publications, sophisticated access management, extensive import/export facilities, fine-grained templating, and hi-res image storage and manipulation. Silva is entirely open source. Extensions ---------- Also available for download is a collection of Silva 'add-on' Products with optional but useful extensions of Silva functionality. More information ---------------- * http://www.infrae.com/products/silva * http://www.infrae.com Downloads --------- * http://www.infrae.com/download/Silva Press Contact ------------- Martijn Faassen, faassen at infrae com

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Highly paid contractor position
by Lloyd Chandler 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

I have a very lucrative position based in London for a developer with at least 18 months commercial python and zope and around about 6 months CMF based development. Candidates should also have at least 1 years worth of HTML JavaScript, and CSS. Experience on UNIX, preferably Ret Hat and Solaris is beneficial and an understanding of web infrastructure including web protocols and designing web applications for scalability and resilience. This is a very lucrative contract in a top financial institution for at least 6 months contracting or could even a highly paid permanent role. If you are interested or know of any suitable candidates that are please do not hesitate to contact me on 0207 739 5500 (ask for Lloyd) or drop me a quick e-mail. This position is available immediately but my client will wait for candidates to work their current notice period. Lloyd Chandler Aston Carter Limited | *+44 (0)20 7739 5500 | *+44 (0)20 7739 0020 *: www.astoncarter.co.uk <blocked::http://www.astoncarter.co.uk> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2004 ATSCo Corporate Member of the Year -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please return it to the sender, delete the email and destroy any copies of it. The information contained in this email are the views of the author and may not necessarily reflect those of The Company -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Plone at Vrijschrift Foundation
by Wiebe van der Worp 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

The Vrijschrift Foundation is an international point of resistance against software patents, represents Project Gutenberg in the EU, FSF for the Netherlands, etc. (we just do a lot of good things :-) ). Our server runs Zope/Plone to host http://plone.ffii.org, http://plone.vrijschrift.org and more. Unfortunately we face Zope crashes and crack attempts on a regular base for example and despite great skills of our administrators they turn out not to be Zopuru's. Some help is desperate needed to keep resources focused on what we stand for. Are you willing to put some small effort in it to keep us up and running? If you want to help , or if you know somebody who wants to do so, you are very welcome to join us on low volume list level, or, if you just want to help in panic situations, just give us your e-mail address. Unfortunately I am not following this list so please cc me at wiebe at vrijschrift dot org and or one of the cc-ed addresses. Thank you!!

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Zope 3 Developer's Handbook
by Stephan Richter 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you all know that the first book covering Zope 3 hit the shelves yesterday. It is called the "Zope 3 Developer's Handbook" and was published by Sams' Developer's Library. Link to Sams Web-Site: http://www.samspublishing.com/title/0672326175 Link to amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0672326175 There is also an online version at: http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/Zope3Book However, I did not yet have the time to transfer the editions made by Sams back to the online version. This will happen in the next months though. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training

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Silva Security Alert 2005-02-05
by Martijn Faassen 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Silva Security Alert 2005-02-02 =============================== 2 february 2005 -- Infrae has discovered a severe security bug in Silva, which potentially allows untrusted users to alter live images and files (all listed versions), as well as alter the draft state of Silva Documents (in versions 0.9.3 and above). If your organisation is running Silva we strongly recommend an upgrade as soon as possible. The problem has been found in all Silva versions currently in use. We've fixed it in our version control repository for the following major versions: Silva 1.2 (under development) Silva 1.1 Silva 1.0 Silva 0.9.3 Silva 0.9.2 Silva 0.9.1 The recommended way to fix this problem is to upgrade to a new bugfix releases for the major version of Silva that you are running. We have made bugfix releases of the affected Zope products available. For versions of Silva 0.9.1 and 0.9.2, only an upgrade of the Silva product itself is necessary. For versions of Silva 0.9.3 and up, an upgrade of both the Silva and SilvaDocument products is needed. Only these products need upgrading. If you have any questions or special requirements concerning your upgrade, please contact Infrae. We apologise in advance for the inconvience. Bugfix versions of Silva and SilvaDocument can be downloaded in the Silva and SilvaDocument download areas on www.infrae.com: http://www.infrae.com/download/Silva http://www.infrae.com/download/SilvaDocument Bugfixed versions are: 0.9.1 ----- Silva-0.9.1.13.tgz 0.9.2 ----- Silva-0.9.2.8.tgz 0.9.3 ----- Silva-0.9.3.7.tgz SilvaDocument-0.9.3.8.tgz 1.0 --- Silva-1.0.3.tgz SilvaDocument-1.0.3.tgz 1.1 --- Silva-1.1.2.tgz SilvaDocument-1.1.2.tgz The beta version of Silva 1.2, already released, also contains the fixes. Quick installation instructions ------------------------------- To install this bugfix release, first remove the old Silva Product, unpack the .tgz file for your current Silva version in the Zope Products directory and restart Zope. If you're running 0.9.3, 1.0 or 1.1, you should also replace the SilvaDocument product with the updated version.

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Zwiki 0.38 released, news roundup
by Simon Michael 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hello all. This month I was inspired by MoinMoin release notes a little. What is it Zwiki is a Zope product for building wikis - a special kind of website that's easy for anyone to edit. What's changed New issuebrowser/IssueBrowser form, preliminary built-in RSS support, bugfixes. See full release notes at the end of this message. News Development has been quiet, and picking up again in late January. Code contributions this month included an internationalisation fix from huron. Discussion has been steady. Bug closing rate has been low. Cleanup of code, docs, and issue categories is ongoing. I posted my idea of priorities for this year at http://zwiki.org/ZwikiRoadmap2005 . We are in the process of reviewing and upgrading our copyright and commit policies. Some new STX contributions are on hold because of this. If you'd like to help, review http://zwiki.org/LegalDepartment and give your input on the zwiki list, and update your information at http://zwiki.org/ZwikiContributors . zwiki.org passed 2000 pages and the tracker passed 1000 issues at the end of last year. The server hosting zwiki.org and zopewiki.org has been upgraded to zope 2.7.3 and had its thread count reduced to 2. It now generally runs stably within our 256M limit (thanks, zope hackers) and remains up except when restarted to install new code. It performs more slowly during google crawls. See also: http://zwiki.org/WikiStats . zopewiki.org has 440 pages and has is receiving a steady, low rate of edits and votes. (However many of these are anonymous votes which will not be remembered.). http://zopewiki.org/EpozBook is a recent addition. See http://zopewiki.org/WikiStats . The active wiki at http://ubuntulinux.org/wiki (756 pages) seems to be doing its job. It's the first zwiki installation which allows switching between the standard and plone zwiki skins (alt -, alt +). It's also the zwiki with most multilingual content. http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/ is another interesting wiki, with an issue tracker, full two-way mailing list integration, and LatexWiki installed. LatexWiki is Bob McElrath's product adding latex support to Zwiki. If all goes well, I'll be at pycon in march. :) That's all I can think of right now. I welcome your feedback and submissions for next month. About the Zwiki project Zwiki was started in 1999 by Simon Michael and now receives changes from many contributors. It is released under the GNU GPL. A new version is released on the first of the month. Links http://zwiki.org - home and docs http://zwiki.org/ReleaseNotes - all release notes http://zwiki.org/KnownIssues - bugs you're likely to run into http://zwiki.org/IssueBrowser - all open bugs http://zwiki.org/IssueTracker - search and report new ones here http://zwiki.org/AboutZwikiDiscussion - the zwiki list, UserDiscussion page, etc. irc://irc.freenode.net/#zwiki - join us on IRC for quick help http://zwiki.org/ZwikiFunding - how to donate or sponsor a feature ________________________________________________________________________ Zwiki 0.38.0 2005/02/01 Summary New issuebrowser/IssueBrowser form, preliminary built-in RSS support, bugfixes. Upgrade notes There have been changes to the zwiki catalog fields. After upgrading, if your wikis use a catalog or are in a CMF/plone site, visit FRONTPAGE/setupCatalog, or if issue tracking is enabled, visit FRONTPAGE/setupTracker, to ensure your catalog is configured for best large-wiki performance. index_object's arguments have changed and the reindex_object and updateCatalog methods are deprecated. As noted below, free form links no longer try so hard to find old-style IssueNo issue pages, so if you have broken links of this kind, upgrade your issue page names (/upgradeAll). Changes Configuring * fix dependency on /setupTracker for good large-wiki performance; /setupCatalog is now sufficient (#993) * be compatible with plone's default_page lines property (#914) Browsing * preliminary built-in RSS support - FRONTPAGE/pages_rss, /changes_rss * freeform links no longer look for both old and new-style issues; a slight (20%) speedup for rendering freeform links Issue tracking * fix sorting issues by number (#934) * issuebrowser/IssueBrowser form for reviewing open issues * make closed issues greener.. may be different on your screen, feedback welcome * hide zeros to make filter issues matrix clearer * try to improve spacing glitch with dtml-translate on filter issues Fit tests * just log a fit import warning instead of displaying on the page General - i18n * i18n (global and french) for issue tracker in plone - i18n in plone skin require some i18n elements (for instance the so called contentaction items) to be in zwiki-plone-* as well (huron) General * catalog awareness cleanups * make setskin links harmless for anonymous users and bots, instead of logging errors (#1010)

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