January 2007 - Zope-Announce

[ANN] Zope 2.10.2 released
by Andreas Jung 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

The Zope developer community I is pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.10.2. You can download Zope 2.10.2 from: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.2/ This release uses unicode as internal representation for ZPT. For this reason you are strongly encouraged to read http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.2b1/Zope-2.10.2_released carefully. Some new features of Zope 2.10: - ZPT implementation based on Zope 3 - experimental WSGI and Twisted integration - Zope 3.3, Five 1.5 integration - clock server - lots of minor improvements and fixes - replaced several Zope 2 modules with their sister implementation of Zope 3 For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt files for the release: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.2/CHANGES.txt Please bring all the bugs you have found to the Zope bugtracker: 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 Supported Python versions: Zope 2.10 requires Python 2.4.3+ (Python 2.4.2 is still acceptable). Older Python versions are no longer supported. Using Python 2.5 is also *unsupported*. - -- Andreas Jung -- ZOPYX Ltd. & Co. KG - Charlottenstr. 37/1 - 72070 Tübingen - Germany Web: www.zopyx.com - Email: info(a)zopyx.com - Phone +49 - 7071 - 793376 E-Publishing, Python, Zope & Plone development, Consulting

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Tramline 0.5.1 Released
by Kit BLAKE 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Tramline 0.5.1 Released 23 january 2007 – Infrae has just released version 0.5.1 of Tramline. This version has improved installation and configuration, an example of setting up Tramline with Zope3, and various bug fixes. What is Tramline? Tramline is an 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. Only a small configuration change in Apache is 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 couple places in the code. Changes in this version * Easily installable using setuptools * Easier configuration through the Apache config files * Includes an example for setting up Tramline together with Zope 3 * Various bugfixes. Thanks to Embyr Thomas for his multipart/form-data fix, and to Chad Maine (who was able to upload over 1000 files in a single POST to a Django app!). Download Tramline 0.5.1 can be downloaded from: http://infrae.com/download/tramline. Credit We would like to thank the people at the University of Bedfordshire for making Tramline possible. Contact FMI contact Daniel Nouri, daniel at infrae com, +31 10 243 7051. -- Kit BLAKE · Infrae · http://infrae.com/ + 31 10 243 7051 Hoevestraat 10 · 3033 GC · Rotterdam + The Netherlands Contact = http://xri.net/=kitblake

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[ANN] TextIndexNG 3.1.14 released
by Andreas Jung 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

I am pleased to announce the release of TextIndexNG V 3.1.14 TextIndexNG V 3 is a complete new implementation based on Zope 3 technologies and can be used both in Zope 2.8/Zope 2.9, Plone 2.1, Plone 2.5. 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). Requirements: - Zope 2.8 or Zope 2.9 - supports Plone 2.1, Plone 2.5 Download: http://opensource.zopyx.com/software/textindexng3/releases/3.1.14 Project page: http://opensource.zopyx.com/software/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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Zope 3 Boot Camp and Sprint registration open
by Chris Calloway 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

The Triangle (NC) Zope and Python Users Group invites you to register for Camp 5 and the BBQ Sprint: http://trizpug.org/boot-camp/camp5/ This is a Zope 3 boot camp followed by a Plone 3 sprint. The boot camp is taught by Philipp von Weitershausen, author of Web Component Development with Zope 3. The training has previously only been offered in Europe and is now available in North America for the first time. The sprint includes several sponsored and invited sprinters. TriZPUG hopes you will participate in Camp 5 in Chapel Hill, NC. Camp 5: Saturday March 10 - Tuesday March 13, 2007 BBQ Sprint: Wednesday March 14 - Saturday March 17, 2007 -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.seacoos.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 962-4323 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

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CMF 1.6.3-beta released
by Jens Vagelpohl 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The CMF developer community is hereby announcing the release of CMF version 1.6.3-beta. Barring any problems, the final version will be released in about a week. 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. The CMF provides the foundation for popular software packages such as Plone. It 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? For release files, change logs, installation instructions and more please visit http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/CMF-1.6.3-beta. Roadmap and release information can be found at http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/docs/roadmap. The CMF mailing list can be reached at the zope-cmf(a)zope.org address, to sign up please visit http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope- cmf. Please file bug reports, feature requests or suggestions in the CMF bug collector at http://www.zope.org/Collectors/CMF . What has changed since the last release? Bug Fixes - CMFCalendar: Refactored test setup to fix test breakage for Zope 2.9. - CMFDefault: The "Sample CMF Content" GenericSetup profile was registered but missing all of its files and necessary interface declarations in the CMFDefault content classes. (http://www.zope.org/Collectors/CMF/453) - DCWorkflow: Fixed errors and site breakage on GenericSetup import of transitions with variable expressions set. They were previously being imported as text rather tha Expressions. - CMFCore.DynamicType: Fixed behaviour regarding default view. DynamicType was making it impossible to use a Zope3-style default view for CMF content types. (http://www.zope.org/Collectors/CMF/459) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFrh1oRAx5nvEhZLIRAgidAJ40/qYXx3DaXtbyN8SnvzdNDVUZAQCgh/mS X+jLDPntA/OWxrd3biHdHyk= =doyA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Issue Dealer 0.9.113 released
by Morten W. Petersen 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

Issue Dealer (http://issuedealer.com) is a issue management tool featuring a weblog publisher (client), weblog (server), WebDAV client, Mail gateway (mailing list and archive), WYSIWYG editing of HTML and Images and more. Changes since the last announcement: 0.9.113: - Cleaning up print statements - Fixed RDF bug on filter listing - Implemented full support for tags - Fixed bug where users couldn't validate their email 0.9.112: - Updated copyright period on footer - Added tag support to issues - Fixed bug where HTML mail messages were stored without to/cc - Added cleaning of incoming HTML messages - Overriding AbstractFormatter to format tags properly in text - Added feedparser for paranoid cleaning of HTML - Implemented spam protection scheme for mail handler 0.9.111: - Minor fixes for escaping HTML content in the mail handler - Implemented threading support for mail handling - Implemented skipping of sending of messages to recipients already on To/Cc 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.

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[ANN] Zope 2.10.2 beta 1 released
by Andreas Jung 14 Jan '07

14 Jan '07

Hi all, on behalf of Zope developer community I am pleased to announce the release of Zope 2.10.2b1. You can download Zope 2.10.2b1 from: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.2b1/ This release uses unicode as internal representation for ZPT. For this reason you are strongly encouraged to read http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.2b1/Zope-2.10.2b1_released carefully Some new features of Zope 2.10: - ZPT implementation based on Zope 3 - experimental WSGI and Twisted integration - Zope 3.3, Five 1.5 integration - clock server - lots of minor improvements and fixes - replaced several Zope 2 modules with their sister implementation of Zope 3 For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt files for the release: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.2b1/CHANGES.txt Please bring all the bugs you have found to the Zope bugtracker: 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 Supported Python versions: Zope 2.10 requires Python 2.4.3+ (Python 2.4.2 is still acceptable). Older Python versions are no longer supported. Using Python 2.5 is also *unsupported*. - -- Andreas Jung -- ZOPYX Ltd. & Co. KG - Charlottenstr. 37/1 - 72070 Tübingen - Germany Web: www.zopyx.com - Email: info(a)zopyx.com - Phone +49 - 7071 - 793376 E-Publishing, Python, Zope & Plone development, Consulting

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Mini-tutorials on the Zope component architecture and on zc.buildout at PyCon
by Jim Fulton 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

At PyCon: http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/HomePage I'll be giving a tutorial that combines two separate mini-tutorials: http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/TutorialsAM#AM7 The first mini-tutorial is on the Zope Component Architecture. The Zope Component Architecture, which isn't tied to the Zope Web application server, provides mechanisms for assembling, extending, and integrating applications using loosely-coupled parts. The tutorial will explain why one would want to use a component system, including when to and when *not* to use components. It will provide a high-level introduction to the main features of the Zope component architecture, comparing it to other Python solutions to the same kinds of problems the Component Architecture addresses. The second mini-tutorial provides an introduction to zc.buildout. zc.buildout is a system for automating the assembly and deployment of applications having many parts. It also provides a mechanism for installing and assembling Python eggs in ways that are especially helpful during development and when creating larger applications. The tutorial will explain and show examples of using zc.buildout to - Create a sandbox for experimenting with packages without installing them into a system Python. - Create development environments for working on packages. - Create system with multiple applications. To get the most from zc.buildout requires some knowledge of using and creating eggs. The mini tutorial will provide a lazy programmer's introduction to using and creating eggs. To find out more see: http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/TutorialsAM#AM7 Hurry! PyCon early-bird registration ends soon. :) Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org

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Reminder: Early Bird Registration for PyCon Ending Soon
by Jeff Rush 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

Greetings. As the co-chair for the upcoming Python conference, being held in Dallas (Addison) Texas, I want to remind folk to register before early bird registration prices end. The event is the fifth international Python Conference, being held Feb 23-25, 2007 at the Marriott-Quorum in Addison Texas, with early-bird registration ending **Jan 15**. The conference draws approximately 400-500 attendees from diverse backgrounds such as scientists from national and medical labs, college/K-12 educators, web engineers and the myriad of IT developers and programming hobbyists. Those new to the Python language are welcome, and we're offering a half-day "Python 101" tutorial on the day before the conference, Thursday Feb 22 to help you get up to speed and better enjoy the rest of the conference. We have a great selection of talks this year, some of which that are relevant to Zope are: - Web Frameworks Panel - Introduction to Zope 3 - The Component Architecture - Panel: State of Zope - WSGI: An Introduction - Using Python Eggs - Distributing your project with Python Eggs - Half-Day Tutorial: zc.buildout and the Zope Component Architecture - Half-Day Tutorial: How to Document a Python Open Source Project Being run by the Python community as a non-profit event, the conference strives to be inexpensive, with registration being only $260 (or $195 if you register prior to Jan 15th), with a further discount for students. On the day before the conference we are running a full day of classroom tutorials (extra charge per class) and then after the conference is a free four-days of sprints, which are informal gatherings of programmers to work together in coding on various projects. Sprints are excellent opportunities to do agile pair-programming side-by-side with experienced programmers and make new friends. Other activities are lightning talks, which are 5-minute presentations to show off a cool technology or spread the word about a project, open space talks, which are spontaneous gatherings around a topic and, new this year, a Python Lab where experienced and novice programmers will work together to solve challenging problems and then present their solutions. The conference is also running four keynote talks by leaders in the programming field, with a special focus on education this year: "The Power of Dangerous Ideas: Python and One Laptop per Child" by Ivan Krstic, senior member of the One Laptop per Child project "Premise: eLearning does not Belong in Public Schools" by Adele Goldberg, of SmallTalk fame "Python 3000" by Guido van Rossum, creator of Python "The Importance of Programming Literacy" by Robert M. "r0ml" Lefkowitz, a frequent speaker at O'Reilly conferences I believe you will find the conference educational and enjoyable. More information about the conference along with the full schedule of presentations with abstracts, is available online: http://us.pycon.org/ Thanks for any help you can give in spreading the word, Jeff Rush Co-Chair PyCon 2007

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