March 2006 - Zope-Announce

Foundation list reminder
by Rob Page 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

Hello everyone! We intend to post news about the Zope Foundation and some process mechanics in the very near future. This note is to remind people of the mailing list [1] for foundation-related topics. Thanks. Regards, Rob [1] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/admin/foundation/ -- Rob Page V: 540 361 1710 Zope Corporation F: 703 995 0412

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CPS 3.4.0 released!
by Stefane Fermigier 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

-- 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! CPS 3.4.0 released! =================== After 1 year and 1/2 of hard work (more than 11000 commits by 32 developers), Nuxeo is pleased to announce, on behalf of the CPS developers community, the release of CPS 3.4.0, the new stable version of CPS, the open source ECM platform. Source code is available here: http://www.cps-project.org/static/src/ or http://www.cps-project.org/sections/downloads/ A binary installer for Windows (includes Zope 2.9.1) here: http://www.cps-project.org/static/windows/CPS-3.4.0-1.exe And other binaries are planned for release in a few days (including MacOS). Please read the following for more information on CPS and CPS 3.4. What is CPS? ------------ CPS is an Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform that provides developers with a rich toolkit to create applications in the fields of: Web Content Management (WCM), Document Management (DM), Collaboration (CSCW), Workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) and corporate portals. CPS may be compared to proprietary solutions like Documentum by EMC, LiveLink by OpenText, or SharePoint by Microsoft. For more information, check: - Marketing material at: http://www.nuxeo.com/en/products/cps/ What's new? ----------- A lot of things have changed since the previous major stable release, CPS 3.2, in september 2004. Here are the most important ones. User-visible changes ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1. A new default UI, that features both usability improvement and a better-looking default skin. This makes working with CPS a more enjoyable experience for end-users. 2. Switch from HTML 4.01 Transitional to XHTML 1.0 Strict, with work on accessibility (A-level by default, AA and AAA-level possible at the expense of some features). 3. AJAXification: use of AJAX techniques for a more responsive and more powerful UI (asynchronous form updates). 4. CPSSkins, which is a very powerful web-based WYSIWYG theme editor for CMF-based applications, has been integrated. It makes it easy for graphic designers or webmasters to modify the look of CPS without writing CSS or template code. 5. CPSPortlets, a web-based WYSIWYG portlet editor that makes it easy for content administrators to modify the presentation of information on a CPS site. 6. New applicative products have been added to the CPS default application: CPSBlog (for blogs), CPSWiki (for wikis), CPSOOo (to manage OpenOffice.org documents). 7. The webmail and shared calendar components have been completely rewritten. They are available as separate packages. 8. CPSGeo, a GIS product for CPS that allows for geolocation of documents in a CPS application. It is available as a separate package. Architecture changes ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1. We have switched to recent versions of Zope (2.9) and CMF (1.6). 2. We have switched most new developments to the Zope 3 component architecture, thanks to Five, the bridge between Zope 2 and Zope 3. 3. We now use of GenericSetup, the new "default", XML-based, configuration tool, instead of CPSInstaller. Using declarative configuration makes it now much easier to manage upgrades between versions 4. We have switched the unit and functional test harnesses to the Zope 2.9 layer-based test runner. This eases the creation and speeds up the execution for the 2543 tests included in the CPS source code so far. 5. We now use CPSUserFolder as a powerful replacement to UserFolder. CPSUserFolder makes it possible to use a user directory managed by CPSDirectory as a source of users in CPS. 6. DCWorkflow has been extended as CPSWorkflow to provide a document-based workflow engine with dynamic schemas support (inspired by the activity-based workflow model) that can handle any document-based business process. This hybrid model gives all the power and flexibility needed to define dynamic validation / review / delegation states to model any paper process you have in the real world, while keeping workflow modeling simple enough to be easily understood by users. 7. CPSRemoteController provides a Web Service interface to remotely control CPS portals (both from another CPS portal or from totally different applications) in a language-independent manner through XML-RPC. CPSRemoteController is also very handy for task automation. 8. CPSRelation provides a tool that manages RDF relations between content objects. 9. Many, speed optimisations, at both low level (including work on ZODB transactions and CPSCore internal optimizations) and high level (rendering of CPSDocument and CPSPortlets caches) to make it possible to manage applications with hundreds of thousands of documents (soon: millions of documents) and tens of gigabytes of data (soon: terabytes of data). Packaging changes ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ CPS is now distributed as several packages. - "CPS Platform": the ECM platform. It embeds all the infrastructure components that are needed to develop ECM applications. The primary audience for CPS Platform is developers. - "CPS": the application. A standard full-featured content management application based on CPS Platform, that features a rich set of default content types, a blog, a wiki and a forum. The primary audience for CPS Platform is people that want to try out CPS, as well as internet or intranet sites administrators with minimal customisation needs. CPS is available both as source code packages, and binary installers for several popular platforms (including MS-Windows). - "CPS Legacy": a set of old components which are either deprecated or currently unmaintained. These components are needed to upgrade older versions of CPS. The primary audience for CPS Legacy: internet or intranet sites administrators who need to upgrade old instances of CPS. More information ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ An updated document "What's new in CPS 3.4", as well as more information like tutorials and screencasts, will be published on http://cps-project.org/ in the upcoming days. Prerequisites to installation ----------------------------- Zope 2.9 is mandatory for installation from the source code. Some third-party Python librairies may also be needed, depending on the components you will want to activate on instanciation. For more information, check: http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/file/CPS3/trunk/INSTALL.txt http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/file/CPS3/trunk/README.txt Upgrading --------- In any case, DON'T DO THIS ON A PRODUCTION SITE. Make backups first, or run the procedure on a copy. If you are running a recent version of CPS, go to portal_setup at the root of your CPS (from the ZMI) and see, from the "Upgrades" tab, if some upgrades need to be run. If you are running an older version (no portal_setup), start by adding a "CPS Setup Tool" (not a "Generic Setup Tool") from the "CPS Tools" ZMI menu item, before running the upgrades. Upgrades have not been tested from every possible version, and some work, that is planned for CPS 3.4.1, is needed to cover all the major cases. For more information on upgrades, please join one of the CPS users mailing lists (see below) or wait for further information that will be published on www.cps-project.org. About CPS --------- CPS is the most advanced Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform. It is based on the Zope application server, the CMF content management framework, is the result of important CMS, ECM and workflow projects carried out in the public administration and the private sector, and of the collaboration of dozens of open source developers. For more technical information: http://www.cps-project.org/ and http://svn.nuxeo.org/ For marketing material: http://www.nuxeo.com/en/products/cps/ For technical information about this release: http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/file/CPS3/trunk/doc/tech-notes.txt Getting involved ---------------- Please join the CPS users, developers or translators mailing list on http://lists.nuxeo.com/ Please report issues or requests for enhancements ont the CPS trac at: http://svn.nuxeo.org/ If you'd like to add a translation to your native language, besides the current 11 ones (en, fr, de, it, es, pt_br, es, ro, mg, eu, ml), or to improve an existing one, we welcome your contribution. The future roadmap for CPS will be discussed on the cps-devel mailing list. Thanks ------ On behalf of the CPS core development team, I'd like to express our gratitude to all the people that have been involved in this process (core and casual developers, testers, documentation authors, translators, etc.), and to the Python / Zope / CMF developers communities that make our work possible. Special thanks to all the CPS customers, because CPS development is driven by the projects that are actually using it. FAQ --- *Q*: Is CPS really open source? Aren't there any proprietary extensions that are sold on top of the platform? *A*: CPS is 100% open source / free software. You can use it, modify it and redistribute it, under the terms of the GPL license. We (Nuxeo) don't sell licenses, only support and develop customers projects on top of CPS Platform. And if you are a free software developer, you are very welcome to join the project as a tester, bugfixer, third-party product developer or core developer.

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Fredericksburg VA ZPUG, tomorrow 7:30-9 PM: Jim Fulton's "State of Zope"
by Gary Poster 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

Sorry to all for the late notice. Tomorrow, March 8, from 7:30 to 9:00 PM, instead of the previously discussed presentations (IronPython and Twisted/Zope 3), Jim Fulton will present his State of Zope talk recently delivered at PyCon, and lead discussion afterwards. The meeting with have the usual selection of delicious food and carbonated beverages. General ZPUG information When: second Wednesday of every month, 7:30-9:00. 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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[ANN] TextIndexNG 3.1.7 released
by Andreas Jung 05 Mar '06

05 Mar '06

I am pleased to announce the release of TextIndexNG V 3.1.7. 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 3.1.7: - fixed some broken unittests - fixed HTML converter - passing the 'language' query parameter down to the ranking code (reported by Simon Pamies) 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 Software Development and Consulting - - E-mail: info(a)zopyx.com Web: www.zopyx.com - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Issue Dealer 0.9.98 released
by Morten W. Petersen 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

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: 0.9.98: - Added a new screen for adding relations interactively - Improved handling of comments on the weblog (they are now searchable) 0.9.97: - Fixed bug where issue tree was rendered unusable - Fixed unauthorized bug on local weblog publisher blog entry 0.9.96: - Updated copyright notice - Refactored code, removed old code - Made anonymous views much easier on the database - Removed old update code - Removed code that requires database writes when viewing objects - Plugged potential security hole in the local weblog publisher 0.9.95: - Removed old Epoz/Plone cruft - Updated code so that all warnings are removed - Cleaned up code - Starting support for Five/CMF 0.9.94: - Added feedback to rename view if input is missing. - Various minor template tweaks - Various improvements to the weblog comment handling - Fixed bug where settings page was not viewable under relations in local_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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Zwiki 0.51 released
by Simon Michael 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Zwiki 0.51 has been released at http:// zwiki.org <http://zwiki.org/> . Zwiki is a free, powerful, easy to use and manage wiki engine for Zope 2; it works with standard Zope, CMF or Plone sites. See below for other useful urls. The 1st rolled round so quick I missed it. Lots of bugfixes and translations this month. Best, -Simon Summary New partial UI translations from Rosetta: arabic, afrikaans, british english, estonian, romanian, swedish, turkish (welcome!); a number of bugfixes, eg fixing plone 2.0 support; a new option useful to discourage random/spam edits on public sites; briefer issue page mailout subjects; much cleanup of unit tests. Upgrade notes If you have a customised wikipage template, your page management form will reflect the new edits_need_username property until you update or remove your template. If you do not have a catalog configured for your wiki, recent changes will no longer sort properly. You will probably want to add a catalog, by visiting SOMEPAGE/setupTracker as manager. Purple numbers are no longer supported out of the box. Changes Installing * fix a bad import which broke CMF 1.4/Plone 2.0 support (#1211) Configuring * new 'edits_need_username' option can be used to block anonymous editors with no username cookie. Off by default. Browsing * fix partial display of pagemanagement form due to inconsistent permission checking (#1172, Frank Laurijssen, Simon Michael) * work around a zope 2.8/2.9 bug breaking recentchanges by requiring a catalog. RC no longer sorts properly without a catalog (#1145, Simon Michael, Michael Haubenwallner) Editing * fix ExternalEditor webdav locking with Zope >=2.8 (#1194, Phil Schumm, Simon Michael) * friendlier access denied messages in certain situations (eg when edits_need_username is enabled) * remove purple numbers plugin Page hierarchy * make links in contents, eg to pages with brackets in the name, more robust Mail * mailouts from issue pages - except for the creation mailout - now just include the issue number, not the full page name, in the subject. This can be turned off by setting a 'mail_issue_names' boolean property. (Simon Michael, Frank Laurijssens) Issue tracking * issuebrowser layout tweaks - reduce columns from 8 to 6 Translations * translation updates from Rosetta at launchpad.net. New translations include: arabic, afrikaans, british english, estonian, romanian, swedish, turkish. Thanks to all translators! * rename xx-XX po files to xx_XX General * testgeddon - move tests/* up to *_tests.py - update all tests for zope 2.9 testrunner - make all tests pass - make tests run faster - run cmf/i18n tests only when the necessary products are present * fix deprecation and bad security declaration warnings reported by zope 2.9 * remove /src access key & link to clean up google results for zwikis (#1174) Urls: http://zwiki.org http://joyful.com http://joyfulsystems.blogspot.com http://zwiki.org/FreeHosting

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[Zope-Annce] Reminder: ZTS course (Zope 2) Apr 17 in Fredericksburg, VA
by Rob Page 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Training Course Reminder =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Zope Corporation is conducting Zope Technical Solutions (ZTS) starting April 17 in Fredericksburg, VA. Our ZTS course covers Zope 2 technologies. Details on the course are available online at o http://tinyurl.com/n7efl Early-bird discounts are available until March 17, 2006. Please contact training(a)zope.com for additional information and/or to register for the course. Hope to see you there! Regards, Rob -- Rob Page V: 540 361 1710 Zope Corporation F: 703 995 0412

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