April 2008 - Zope-Announce

Grok 0.12 released!
by Jan-Wijbrand Kolman 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Hi everybody, The Grok team is happy to announce the release of Grok 0.12! Grok is a web application framework built with Zope 3 technologies that aims to be easy to use. See also http://grok.zope.org/ This release is available on PyPI and a new index of specific versions of packages used by this release has been frozen at http://grok.zope.org/releaseinfo/grok-0.12.cfg. This means that new projects created with grokproject will start using this release right away. New Features ------------ * Viewlet support. Viewlets are highly configurable "part-of-page" components. Expect documentation on the website soon. * Automatic inclusion of dependencies. No more editing configure.zcml of your application when you add a new package to setup.py that has ZCML. Grok now automatically should find this dependency and loads its ZCML, so only editing setup.py and running bin/buildout should now be required. * Added testsetup classes in grok.testing to improve easy setup of unit- and functional tests. * Note also that the Base postfix feature has been removed. Classes with names that end with this postfix are not treated as Grok base classes anymore. Use the grok.baseclass directive instead. Upgrading --------- To upgrade an existing project from 0.11.x to 0.12 you have to: 1. change the 'extends' directive in your project's buildout.cfg to point to http://grok.zope.org/releaseinfo/grok-0.12.cfg 2. run ``bin/buildout`` in your project, to update the dependencies including the 0.12 egg of Grok itself For the detailed changelog, see Grok's PyPI entry page http://pypi.python.org/pypi/grok For detailed upgrade notes, including how to change your application, see http://grok.zope.org/project/upgrade-notes For installation instructions and much more on how to use Grok, see the Grok tutorial: http://grok.zope.org/documentation/book/ We hope to hear from you! ------------------------- If you enjoy Grok, please subscribe to the grok-dev mailing list and join us in the #grok channel on irc.freenode.net.

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Five Zope Foundation projects accepted to the Google Summer of Code!
by Martijn Faassen 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Hi there, I'm happy to announce that five student projects were accepted to the Google Summer of Code this year. It looked dark for a while with only 2 projects assigned at first, but luckily that changed. Thank you, Google! You can find an overview of the accepted projects here: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/zope/about.html Welcome Ranjith, Dirceu, Charith! Also welcome again to Uli and Luciano! In addition, Georgy Berdyshev submitted a project to the Python Software Foundation (under the Jython sub-banner) to port Zope 3 components to Jython. This is being mentored by Frank Wierzbicki, a lead developer of Jython. We should do our best to back up this very important project: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/psf/appinfo.html?csaid=59C7870763174C10 We also cannot forget our sister organization, the Plone Foundation, which also had 5 projects accepted. Some of the work done in these projects will doubtlessly feed back into Zope as well: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/plone/about.html In particular, the component registry introspector project by Martin Lundwall has already seen coordination with Uli's introspector project, so we're off to a good start in working together. Unfortunately we had a limited amount of slots and more worthwhile proposals than we should allocate, so there were worthwhile projects we had to reject. I'd like to thank the students who submitted them for their work. I hope that this won't discourage you from Zope. Hopefully we will see you around, and please do try again next year if you'd like! Thanks also to the mentors for all your feedback so far. Now the *real* work will start. I'd like to thank Aroldo especially for his tireless help in preparing us all for the Summer of Code. He worked hard to get all the administrative details worked out. Soon I will write a followup message to the gsoc(a)zope.org list (mentors, students, you are all subscribed, aren't you?) with some guidelines for how we'd like to conduct our projects this year. Regards, Martijn, mentor coordinator

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Google Summer of Code: submission deadline extended
by Martijn Faassen 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hi there, Because there was a lot of feedback from different projects that the student application deadline was rather tight this year, Google has extended the submission deadline for the Google Summer of Code has been extended for a week until april 7. This gives us two chances: * if you're a student and you didn't manage to submit your proposal in time, now is the time to submit it! * if you did submit a proposal, now is the time to improve it. Our mentors will be giving feedback to your proposals and will ask for improvements. You can also discuss your proposals on this list (or on the appropriate other zope mailing list if you want to get the voice of others in our community - I've seen Jim Fulton reply to someone's request for comments already, for instance). Let's make use of this extension the best we can! Regards, Martijn, Zope Foundation Google summer of code mentor coordinator

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