March 2006 - Zope-Announce

Zenoss Project (Network/Systems Management)
by Bill Karpovich 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

We are pleased to announce the Zenoss project. Zenoss is Zope-based, network/systems monitoring application that has been in development since 2002. The goal of Zenoss is to "Simplify Systems Management" with a Python, open source alternative to the big commercial management suites (e.g. IBM Tivoli, HP OpenView, etc.). Zenoss also strives to go beyond Nagios and OpenNMS with improved architecture, scalability, ease and breadth. Links: - http://www.zenoss.org (home) - http://www.zenoss.org/download (download) - http://www.zenoss.org/product (product info) - http://dev.zenoss.org/trac (wiki/roadmap/tickets) Register ASAP and get a free "Here it is ... Your Moment of Zen" t-shirt! - http://www.zenoss.org/participate/ We are currently recruiting for the project, including paid positions and bounty development. - http://www.zenoss.org/participate/helpwanted.html Zenoss product highlights: - Monitoring across layers (network, servers, apps, environment...) - Monitoring across platforms (windows, linux, unix...) - Monitoring across perspectives (availability, performance, events) - Automated, object-based modeling of the IT environment - Written in Python/Zope... Enjoy, Bill Karpovich bk(a)zenoss.org Erik Dahl edahl(a)zenoss.org

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Nuxeo Calendar framework released in version 2
by Lennart Regebro 18 Mar '06

18 Mar '06

2006-03-17 Nuxeo proudly presents version 2 of it's calendar framework. The calendar framework is a set of advanced, flexible calendar components for Python and Zope. CalCore is a calendar component for Python. It allows the Python developer do write advanced calendar applications either using their own event storage or integrating with external calendar servers. Features of the CalCore include among others: * Support for making private calendars, shared calendars, resource booking and more, * invitation workflow, * iCalendar import and export, * meeting support, including helper functions to look for free time, * recurring event support, * etc. CalZope is the Zope module that provides a web user interface for CalCore. Features include: * an internationalized web user interface, * integration with iCalendar clients (Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird, ...) using the iCalendar and http, * an advanced meeting helper that allows you to search for free time amongst the invited users, * etc. The changes between version 1 and version 2 have been mostly in CalZope, where we now have started using more of the techniques available through the tighter integration of Zope 3s component architecture in Zope 2. * Local utilities instead of portal tools, providing for an easier installation and greater portability to various non-CMF frameworks, such as Silva and Zope 3. * zope.i18n for internationalization providing translations of CalZope without additional tools such as Localizer or PTS. CalZope will in a standard Zope now be automaticaly translated into english, french and more, and you can easily add your own translations. * Install script, so you can easily try CalZope out in a pure Zope environment. * And of course, various minor bugfixes. For CPS users, all these modules are a part of the CPSGroupware bundle, together with the CPSMailAccess web mail client. For more functional and technical information, see the Calendar Server web site: http://www.cps-project.org/sections/projects/calendar_server CalCore v2 can be downloaded here: http://www.cps-project.org/static/misc/CalCore-bundle-2.0.1.tgz CalZope v2 can be downloaded here: http://www.cps-project.org/static/misc/CalZope-bundle-2.2.2.tgz If you'd like to help with development or porting to other platforms, please join the cps-devel mailing list at http://lists.nuxeo.com/mailman/listinfo/cps-devel -- Lennart Regebro, Nuxeo http://www.nuxeo.com/ CPS Content Management http://www.cps-project.org/

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SimpleUserFolder 1.1.2 Released!
by Chris Withers 18 Mar '06

18 Mar '06

SimpleUserFolder is a scriptable, subclassable, fully documented and tested user folder implementation. This release fixes one bug which affected a minority of ZSQL method use cases and ensures compatibility with Zope 2.7, 2.8 and 2.9. For more information, please see: http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/zope/simpleuserfolder cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

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[Ann] ManagableIndex 1.2: efficient, flexible indexes fully managed via the ZMI
by Dieter Maurer 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

"ManagableIndex" is an indexing construction framework that facilitates building new indexes managable via the ZMI. It comes with field, keyword, range, path and word indexes which can be used in place of the Zope standard indexes. For all of them, value determination (how the value is determined an object should indexed under), ignore values, type conversion, normalization can be configured via the ZMI. Text based field, keyword und word indexes support matching not only for pattern with wildcards '*' and '?' but also for regular expression. If installed, all "ManagableIndex"s use "IncrementalSearch[2]" which can drastically speed up queries dominated by quite specific and queries (you will also need to use "AdvancedQuery" to get this efficiency effect to its full extend). Version 1.2 fixes a missing import in "PathIndex" and defines a new method used from Zope 2.8.x on in the "Indexes" tab of the ZMI. More information and download <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope> -- Dieter

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[Ann] ZopeProfiler 1.7.1: learn what Zope is spending its time on
by Dieter Maurer 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

ZopeProfiler allows you to profile your Zope requests and analyse the resulting runtime profiles in various ways (timing statistics, callers, callees). Profiling can provide a high degree of insight into the expensive parts of your application and be used as base for runtime optimizations. ZopeProfiler 1.7.1 is a bugfix release. It fixes a bug with regular expressions containing '<' or '&'. It also replaces the function name based output filtering introduced in 1.7 with 'pstats' stdname based filtering. This filtering is more flexible (although a bit more difficult to use) and leverages better the 'pstats' infrastructure. More importantly, entries selected by a regular expression are now sorted as specified. This allows you to quickly determine the most expensive selected functions. More info and download: <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope> -- Dieter

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PDBDebugMode 0.1 Release
by Ross Patterson 13 Mar '06

13 Mar '06

http://www.zope.org/Members/rossp/PDBDebugMode PDBDebugMode - PDB post-mortem debugging on exceptions when debug-mode=on If a relevant error log object is found, exceptions included in the error log's ignored exception types will be ignored and the debugger won't be invoked. It also enables the import of the pdb module in unprotected code. On encountering an error, the port-mortem debugger is invoked with the error's traceback. Once in the debugger you can examine objects, variables, etc. at all levels of the call stack. This is, of course, extremely useful for debugging. Since it only does anything if the instance is running with debug-mode=on, I find this product useful not only for debugging on my development instances, but also for doing quick emergency debugging on a live production site. IOW, if the problem is only reproducable on the production site but not on my development instance, I'll restart the production instance in debug-mode with pdb in emacs, reproduce the error, inspect the call stack. Ross Patterson

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MailTemplates 1.1.1 Released!
by Chris Withers 12 Mar '06

12 Mar '06

These allow you to use the full power of the the python email package along with Zope's Page Template technology to easily build and send fully standards compliant emails. This release fixes one bug and one deprecation warning. MailTemplates are now only compatible with Zope 2.8.0 and above. For more information, please see: http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/zope/mailtemplates cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

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[Ann] ZopeProfiler 1.7 -- learn what Zope is spending its time for
by Dieter Maurer 11 Mar '06

11 Mar '06

ZopeProfiler supports the collection and analysis of timing profiles. Such profiles tell you about expensive parts of your application and can give valuable hints towards optimization. The new version allows the profile analysis to be restricted to the functions matched by a regular expression. You can immediately determine the statistics, callers and callees of interesting functions (without the need to browse through hundreds of statistics records). This new version was very helpful in the determination that Zope (from version 2.8 on) misses an important ZODB optimization causing several times more ZODB storage loads than expected (and necessary). More information and download <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope> -- Dieter

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[ANN] TextIndexNG 3.1.8 released
by Andreas Jung 11 Mar '06

11 Mar '06

I am pleased to announce the release of TextIndexNG V 3.1.8. 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 3.1.8: - TextIndexNG3.py: the 'thesaurus' query option was not passed properly - fixed a KeyError 'language' Requirements: - Zope 2.8+, Zope 3.2+ 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 Ltd. & Co KG - - E-mail: info(a)zopyx.com Web: www.zopyx.com, www.zopyx.de - -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Bad foundation mailing list pointer
by Rob Page 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

Apologies!! I sent the admin URL. For your convenience the real URL (while not hard to figure out :^) is below: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation -- Rob Page V: 540 361 1710 Zope Corporation F: 703 995 0412

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