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Zope.org and New zope.org status
by Guido van Rossum 09 Jan '03

09 Jan '03

Here are Zope Corporation's status reports from zope.org and the "new zope.org" effort. We haven't been keeping the community up to date very frequently regarding our efforts to improve these sites, for which our apologies. From now on we'll try to do better. Apologies for the cross-posting; please direct followups to zope-web(a)zope.org. First the zope.org status report. The big news here is that we now have a (part-time) paid webmaster, Jeffrey Shell. (Some of you may already have noticed this, but AFAICT it was never officially announced.) Jeffrey has calmly and quietly been gardening the zope.org website, adding a link here, cleaning up a page there. To reach Jeffrey, send email to webmaster(a)zope.org. Next, the new zope.org effort. When we last reported on this, we had hired Sidnei da Silva to convert the old site to a more recent version of Zope and CMF. The site will also get a new look (based on the contest winner (similar to www.zope.ch) We're glad to report that Sidnei has been very active, and we expect he'll be ready to go live with the new site next month, despite having spent three weeks in the hospital with pneumonia. Here's a more detailed status report from Sidnei: Milestone Three: - Update ZWiki to latest version -- This was already done before I went to the hospital. Of course ZWiki development continued, and I updated it again this monday to get all fixes. There is still some work regarding UI to be done (converting backlinks, history and subscribe pages to ZPT). Milestone Four: - Create custom replacements, based on CMFDefault for UseCases, ZSP, etc. -- Not done yet. - CMFPackage -- Its working and funcional. Still needs UI work (integrating a mockup that was done by Olivier (?) with the Software Package view). Milestone Five: - Replace Software Product -> CMFPackage -- Migration script is working very nicely with this. Some manual work will be required for organizing /Products/Zope, which has a folder for each version released plus a folder for each hotfix. - Replace Tracker -> CMFCollector -- I feel like we need to discuss this one a bit. Reason: there is now a new and improved collector, CMFCollectorNG, which was developed by Andreas Jung based on CMFCollector. It looks worth using and contains great improvements - Replace UseCases/ZSP -> Custom CMF-Aware types -- Not done yet. - Consolidate ZCatalogs -- Based on some preliminar tests, I feel that we may need a better approach to this. Seems like theres no *big* speed improvement in using ZCTextIndex when used together with slower indexes, at least with the out of the box CMF search script and having *all* the content indexed at 'portal_catalog'. However, the search results seem to be a lot more meaningful. So, this item 'just works', but may need optimization. Milestone Six - UI work. Make a "Useable" skin that will be replaced later -- Im working on this right now, specially on CMFPackage and CMFBackTalk. I already adapted the template to be automagically shared between ZPT and DTML skins, and thats a great improvement cause it will allow us to reuse a lot of things from the old site without big modifications. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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ANNOUNCE: Pound - reverse proxy and load balancer - v1.1
by Robert Segall 08 Jan '03

08 Jan '03

This is to announce the release of Pound v1.1. New in this release: - improved auto-configuration. Pound compiles now correctly on more platforms, including various *BSD. - new: LogLevel 3 for Apache-compatible "combined log format" (should be easier for automated tools). - Pound no longer asks for a client certificate in HTTPS unless it is really required. - much improved stability; new monitor process to watch and restart the real process if necessary. - better handling of the 'Connectio: close' header, resulting in fewer problems with IE 5+. - possibility to listen on all available interfaces, including dynamic changing IP addresses. - a few minor bug fixes. Most notably a work-around for a bug in the threads library on OpenBSD 3.2. - new support for HTTPS for Zope 2.6 (same as previously available for 2.5.1) The software is at version 1.1 (production quality). Further testing (especially under heavy loads), improvements and suggestions are welcome. What is Pound (from the Web page) - a reverse-proxy: it passes requests from client browsers to one or more back-end servers. - a load balancer: it will distribute the requests from the client browsers among several back-end servers, while keeping session information. - an SSL wrapper: Pound will decrypt HTTPS requests from client browsers and pass them as plain HTTP to the back-end browsers. - an HTTP/HTTPS sanitizer: Pound will verify requests for correctness and accept only well-formed ones. - an HTTP/1.1 to 1.0 proxy. - a fail-over-server: should a back-end server fail, Pound will take note of the fact and stop passing requests to it until it recovers. - a request redirector - it will pass client requests to separate groups of servers, based on required URL and the presence or absence of headers (pattern matching) Pound was specifically developed to serve as a front-end for multiple instances of Zope running on top of a common ZEO storage, but can be used with any other web server. A patch for the Python source of z2.py is available as part of the distribution to allow using Pound's SSL capabilities. Pound is currently in use in several medium to large volume sites and seems to be holding up quite well: largest reported site does about 3.5 million requests per day, peaking at over 300 requests per second. The speed is well superior to other, equivalent solutions, the configuration is much simpler and the necessary resources (CPU, RAM, disk) are much, much lower. Pound is distributed under the GPL. For further information, download, etc. please see http://www.apsis.ch/pound Enjoy and let me know how it works for you. -- Robert Segall Apsis GmbH Postfach, Uetikon am See, CH-8707 Tel: +41-1-920 4904

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Get paid to write about Zope!
by ZopeMag 08 Jan '03

08 Jan '03

Hello all, ZopeMag, the only Magazine devoted exclusively to Zope, is looking for freelance writers. At the beginning of February "ZopeMag" will resume regular publication and feature interviews, tutorials, product reviews -- every two weeks. To find out more about writing for ZopeMag please visit our "Write for ZopeMag" page. http://www.zopemag.com/writefor.html Regards, The ZopeMag Staff -- ZopeMag - the only magazine devoted to Zope!

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Squishdot 1.5.0 Released!
by Chris Withers 08 Jan '03

08 Jan '03

Squishdot 1.5.0 is now available from http://www.squishdot.org/Download. I'm pleased to announce that this release works with Zope 2.6.0 although, if upgrading, please upgrade to Squishdot 1.5.0 *before* you upgrade to Zope 2.6.0! The following changes were made: - Can now edit the date of postings. - Uses Strip-o-Gram 1.4, the latest version. - A few bugfixes and improvments in documentation. See http://squishdot.org/Documentation/Changes for full details. If you run into problems, remember Squishdot has a mailing list at YahooGroups and a bug collector on SourceForge. cheers, Chris

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M2Crypto 0.09 + Win32 binaries
by Ng Pheng Siong 08 Jan '03

08 Jan '03

Hi, M2Crypto 0.09 is now available: - Now bundles the correct version of ZServer/__init__.py, so ZServerSSL should really work for Zope 2.6.0. ;-) - Fixed xmlrpc-over-https for Python 2.2.2. (Apparently it works for Python 2.2.1.) Thanks to prashanth for patches. - Win32 binaries for Pythons 1.5.2, 2.1.3 and 2.2.2. The 2.1.3 binary tested successfully with a binary distribution of Zope 2.6.0. Thanks to Adam Karpierz for the binaries and patches. - Also contributed by Adam Karpierz: Win32 binaries for OpenSSL 0.9.6h. Cheers. -- Ng Pheng Siong <ngps(a)netmemetic.com> * http://www.netmemetic.com

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Strip-o-Gram 1.4 Released!
by Chris Withers 07 Jan '03

07 Jan '03

Strip-o-Gram is an HTML Conversion Library that can convert HTML to Plain Text and strip specified tags and Javascript from HTML. See http://www.zope.org/Members/chrisw/StripOGram for more details. This release enables Strip-O-Gram to work as a Zope Product as well as a Python Package. cheers, Chris

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[ANN] PropertyFolder & PropertyObject 1.3
by Maik Jablonski 07 Jan '03

07 Jan '03

Hi to all who are interested in rapid application development, PropertyObject & PropertyFolder are generic content objects to build database-applications with the Zope-Management-Interface (ZMI) in just a few minutes. If you got the idea behind these tools (and the magic of AbracadabraObject), you can build a comfortable prototype for your web-application in only 5 minutes! I'll promise...;) Whats new? * Added an often requested feature for easier use with AbracadabaObject: If you sync a PropertyObject/Folder out of a standard_object_folder, all "parallel" instances of a PropertyObject/Folder will be synced as well. * added missing **kw into __call__, so you can call PropertyObjects/Folders from other methods with keyword-args. * bug fix in manage_changeProperties - keyword-args were broken. Thanks to Aitor Grajal! * some minor cosmetic changes in the dtml-templates... Download at: http://www.zope.org/Members/mjablonski Cheers, Maik Jablonski -- German Zope User Group http://www.dzug.org/

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[ANN] TextIndexNG 1.08 released (Bugfix release)
by Andreas Jung 06 Jan '03

06 Jan '03

TextIndexNG 1.08 has just been released. This release is a bugfix-only release without any new features. The versions 1.05 - 1.07 have a serious bug in the TXNGSplitter that might cause some data corruption when working with unicode properties (Zope 2.6+). IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO UPGRADE YOUR INSTALLATION TO VERSION 1.08 IF YOU ARE USING UNICODE PROPERTIES. Installations working on non-unicode data are NOT affected. Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/textindexng --------------------------------------------------------------------- - Andreas Jung http://www.andreas-jung.com - - EMail: andreas at andreas-jung.com - - "Life is too short to (re)write parsers" - ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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OOPServer Released
by Thomas Guettler 03 Jan '03

03 Jan '03

Hi! This is the first release of OOPServer. It is a 100% Python solution for developing customised document management systems. It uses Zope as web application server. It includes an Upload-Client for integrating office or other software installed at the client. In the future it should get the core for a free domea conformable software. Domea[1] is a requirements catalog and certificate for electronic workflow systems of the German federal government. Please send me an email if you are interested in adding DMS or workflow features to your commercial application, or if you want to fund a free domea implementation. Up to now the target group are developers. It can be viewed as an example of how you can program Python products with Zope, too. The implementation of OOPServer is 100% Python and avoids DTML, ZPT and Acquisition. You can get the source from: http://guettli.sourceforge.net A demo is available: http://guettli.dyndns.org:8080 [1] Domea: http://www.kbst.bund.de/Themen-und-Projekte/eGovernment-,63/Vorgangsbearbei… Thomas Guettler -- Thomas Guettler <guettli(a)thomas-guettler.de> http://www.thomas-guettler.de

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NeoBoard 1.1b2 released
by Wankyu Choi 03 Jan '03

03 Jan '03

Hi everyone, I am pleased to announce that NeoBoard 1.1b2 has been released :-) - NeoBoard 1.1b2 fixes a lot of bugs. ( NeoPortal Library 0.9a2 also fixes most of the notable bugs in NeoBoard 1.1b. You should upgrade your NeoPortal Library package to 0.9a2, if you haven't.) - Duplicate entry bug in Plone navigation tree slot fixed: now you may rest your voice! It's finally fixed ;-) - Code/skin optimized : NeoBoard aritlce list is at least four times faster in rendering itself compared to 1.1b. - Skins for NeoPortal Embeddable Objects ( call_views/inline comment buttons/views ) were missing charset definition; i18n now works fine with embedded objects ( Ever wondered why 'add comment' refuses to get translated? Yeah, that one. ) Note that '-view' is now default tab when you first visit any NeoBoard instance. Also note that it is always recommended you get the latest version of NeoPortal Library from the CVS. Read the instructions at 'http://www.zoper.net/Downloads' for mor info on accessing NeoPortal Products CVS. Enjoy! (8) Wankyu Choi --------------------------------------------------------------- To the dedicated staff at NeoQuest, language is not a problem to be dealt with, but an art waiting to be performed. --------------------------------------------------------------- Wankyou Choi CEO/President NeoQuest Communications, Inc. 3rd Floor, HMC Bldg., 730-14, Yoksam-dong, Kangnam-gu Seoul, Korea Tel: 82-2 - 501 - 7124 Fax: 82-2-501-7058 Corporate Home: http://www.neoqst.com Personal Home: http://www.zoper.net, http://www.neoboard.net e-mail: wankyu(a)neoqst.com ---------------------------------------------------------------

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