- Zope-Announce - Zope lists

zope.org wikis subscribable
by Ken Manheimer 18 Dec '01

18 Dec '01

In the interest of making it easier to track the development collaboration going on in zope.org wikis, you can now subscribe to email notifications about changes to any of the wiki pages. Some of you may have noticed that the all zope.org wiki page footers have grown a "Subscriptions" link in the past few days. This takes you to a page where logged-in visitors can subscribe and unsubscribe to notifications about changes of that particular page, to current and future offspring of the page, and/or to changes of all pages in the wiki. We've basically finished the implementation and have tested a bit, and it looks ready to roll. The zope.org wikis have proven to be very effective in enabling people to help formulate and comment on development efforts. However, as their use has grown, and it's become easier for people to contribute feedback eg by commenting, it has gotten much too hard for anyone to keep an eye on the items that interest them. We're expecting that email notifications will correct this, by providing active, immediate notifications about changes directly to the subscriber. In the interest of making the notifications, themselves, manageble, we've tried to put information in the headers for easy sorting/foldering. See the NotificationFormat page in the project wiki for details: http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/FishbowlNotificationsForNow/Noti… We also want to make it easy to keep track of and disable your existing subscriptions. We were able to do that for per-page subscriptions by cataloging them in a special site index, with a link on the subscriptions page launches to a search which identifies all the page-specific subscriptions for your userid. Unfortunately, the current implementation does not allow for cataloging the wiki-wide folder subscriptions - you'll have to track those down as you get notices for them. We'll be getting new experience with notifications for large numbers of users, so some adjustment may be necessary as we see the usage scale. We'll be posting followups here as relevant. (This addition of notifications was implemented with only a small time window, possible because we could use code that simon michael recently developed for the original ZWiki (on which zope.org's WikiForNow is based). The give and take between ZWiki and WikiForNow has been very good - i know it's been beneficial for zope.org and zope corp, and understand that ZWiki has benefitted from work done in WikiForNow. It's a good collaboration - thanks simon!) -- Ken klm(a)zope.com

1 0

zope-skins mailing list
by alan runyan 12 Dec '01

12 Dec '01

Hi. There is a list that is starting up that is going to focus on the UI portions of ZOPE. Ideally this will be the meeting place for HTML designers to get involved with ZOPE. A idea that has been floating around Alex Limi and I has been to try to formalize some sort of CSS API so Product develoeprs can adhere to (something very simple). so if you are intereted in the UI portions of CMF/ZMI/Products this mailing list will hold some interest. This is a request for designers to please subscrieb to the mailing list. There may be quite a few requests for UI revamps and this might be a really good communication channel to bridge HTML Designers with Software developers. the mailing list is http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-skins

1 0

CMF 1.2 beta1 Released
by Tres Seaver 12 Dec '01

12 Dec '01

Zope Corporation is pleased to announce the beta release of version 1.2 of its Content Management Framework (CMF). From the README 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. As packaged, the CMF generates a site much like the Zope.org site. The CMF is intended to be easily customizable, in terms of both the types of content used and the policies and services it provides. Resources * Download the CMF "tarball", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.2beta1/CMF-1.2-beta1.tar.gz or as a "zipfile", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.2beta1/CMF-1.2-beta1.zip * The "CMF site", http://cmf.zope.org. * The "mailing list", mailto:zope-cmf@zope.org. - "List information and online signup", http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-cmf. Archives - "List archives", http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf. Installation Please see "Installing CMF", http://cmf.zope.org/download/CMF-1.2beta1/INSTALL.txt From the Changelog New features - Added docs from the crack ZC docs guys; these docs live in the top-level 'docs' directory. - Merged CMFDecor product's artifacts into CMFCore / CMFDefault; theses aretifacts allow use of filesystem-based Zope Page Templates as skins. Note that the CMFDecor skin is the one which will be receiving all our development focus: we will fix bugs in the DTML skins, but are not likely to invest significant effort in upgrading it. - Hooked 'manage_addFolder' to allow creation of PortalFolders from both WebDAV, FTP, and ZMI. - Improved tracebacks from broken FSDTMLMethods, which no longer indicate that every problem is in RestrictedDTML. - Made it possible to add CookieCrumblers in nested folders. You can just drop in a cookie crumbler anywhere to change the login form for that area of the site. In fact, now you don't have to create a user folder just to change the login process. - Made Link objects editable via FTP / WebDAV. - Merged Chris Withers' FSSQLMethod into CMFCore. - Added documentation for installing from CVS. - Moved permission checking inside personalize_form to make sure Anonymous cannot access it without logging in (CMF Tracker Issue 349, thanks go to Bill Anderson). - Added initial CMF use cases as FSSTXMethods in CMFDefault/help. - Made validation methods of 'portal_metadata' available to scripts. - Made skinned 'index_html' reflect generic view on folder content, rather than simple title/description of the portal. - Added "Change and View" submit button to content editing forms; added check for this button to POST handlers in CMFDefault, and indirected redirect targets in those methods through 'getActionByID'. - Added knob for skin cookie persistence to SkinsTool's "properties" tab. The default policy (unchanged) is that skin cookies expire at the end of the browser session. if Skin Cookie Persistence is checked the cookie will last a full yesr. - Added an API to the 'portal_actions' interface for querying, adding, and removing action providers. - Added a "multi-review" form, enabling a reviewer to publish or reject multiple items at once, using a common comment. - Added ZMI tab to DirectoryView to allow re-basing the filesystem path. - Added "breadcrumbs" to CMFDecor skins. - Added initial support for WebDAV locaking to PortalContent. - Added SortCriterion to list of criterion types for Topics, to permit sorting of results. - Added "Local Roles" action to folders to ease collaboration. - Add scarecrow assertions for the CMF-centric interfaces, and made the actual interfaces compatible with the standard Zope Interface package. - Made FSSTXMethod display skinnable, and added ZPT version. - Added 'visible' attribute to TypeInformation actions, to permit indirection (via 'getActionById') without exposing the action in the CMF UI. - Extended MetadataTool to allow adding / removing element specs (i.e., it can now manage policies for "custom" schemas, as well as Dublin Core). plus many bugfixes. -- =============================================================== Tres Seaver tseaver(a)zope.com Zope Corporation "Zope Dealers" http://www.zope.com

1 0

Python Conference News
by Joya Subudhi 10 Dec '01

10 Dec '01

Python 10 Conference News Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, and Andrew Koenig, Principal Research Staff Member at AT&T Shannon Laboratory, will give the keynote addresses. Tim Berners-Lee will speak on "Webizing Python" and Andrew Koenig will discuss "Notes from a Polygot Outsider." The entire program of the Refereed Paper Track is complete. You can view the titles and authors of all the presentations within each session and check out nominations for the Best Paper Award on the Python 10 Web site. The Tutorials Day program is also complete. Silver Sponsors of Python 10 are: Hostway Corporation: http://www.hostway.com and New Riders Publishing: http://www.newriders.com Registration for Python 10 is open. Save with early bird registration rates when you register online before January 7, 2002. To register and for conference details, visit: http://www.python10.org The Tenth International Python Conference February 4th through February 7th The Hilton Alexandria Mark Center Alexandria, Virginia

1 0

ZMailman 2.1 preview
by Stephan Richter 09 Dec '01

09 Dec '01

Hello everyone, I am proud to announce the first preview of the ZMailman product. It allows Zope to have access to the Mailman API and pretty much replaces Mailman's Web GUI. I also added the beginnings of a Mailman UserFolder. More info at: http://demo.iuveno-net.de/iuveno/Products/ZMailman/ Zope site: http://www.zope.org/Members/srichter/Products/ZMailman Note: ZMailman runs only on Zope 2.5+ and Mailman 2.1a3+. Please go and try it and don't forget to send us comments. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management

1 0

Zope 2.5.0 Beta 2 is available
by Matthew T. Kromer 05 Dec '01

05 Dec '01

Zope 2.5 Beta 2 has been released - you can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.5.0b2/ Some of the bug fixes in 2.5 Beta 2: * Fixed a major memory leak * Adjusted some API changes which broke some products * Auto-recognition of page templates via .pt extensions on upload * HTTP range support fix, helps Acrobat reader Particular features of interest in 2.5 Beta 2 * Preview field in Image objects * Editable File objects under 64K for text files * New User management API * User folder password encryption * Security machinery accelerations * Document template rendering accelerations * Page Templates, an alternate page markup * Distutils infrastructure support for addons * Session Tracking * New Examples For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release: * http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.5.0b2/CHANGES.txt * http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.5.0b2/HISTORY.txt For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Misc/InstallingZope.html

1 0

Virtual Host Folder beta 2
by Gary Poster 04 Dec '01

04 Dec '01

Second beta release. Small bug fixes and updates to help files (see CHANGES.txt in distro). Seems very stable, but I'll wait another week or so at least before changing the status to 'stable'. The problem with help files I reported before apparently appears only on my Win2000 Zope--the uncooperative help file loads correctly on my other systems. http://www.zope.org/Members/poster/VHF Please report any problems, and enjoy! (I probably won't go down the Component path and explicitly define the class interfaces until (a) I get around to looking at Zope 3X or (b) someone requests it.) Virtual Host Folder: a virtual host manager using the same functional core as the Virtual Host Monster from EvanSimpson's SiteAccess (as further modified by iMeme). More options, more help files, Zope folder-like interface with hopefully improved ease-of-use. Gary

1 0

Zope News For December 3
by Chris McDonough 04 Dec '01

04 Dec '01

Hi Folks, Due to the efforts of Casey Duncan, there is a Zope News that documents the months of October and November. You can see it at http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZWN/ZWN-2001-12-03. A huge hats off to Casey for really coming through with the production! -- Chris McDonough Zope Corporation http://www.zope.org http://www.zope.com "Killing hundreds of birds with thousands of stones"

1 0

Xron now works with Zope 2.4.x
by Loren Stafford 04 Dec '01

04 Dec '01

Xron, the Zope scheduled method dispatcher, has been upgraded. Xron Version 0.0.10 Date: 2001/11/27 1. Made compatible with Zope 2.4.x 2. Optimized handling of ZODB connection. Thanks to Joseph Wayne Norton for providing most of these patches. http://www.zope.org/Members/lstaffor/Xron/ -- Loren

1 0

jcNTUserFolder 0.2.1 released
by Jephte CLAIN 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

this one fixes an issue with unicode objects returned from win32 hopefully, this makes it compatible with Zope 2.4.x note: because of my lack of time, I am not on the list, and so I don't keep track of all the last improvements in Zope. this one is a (not so) quick fix to a reported problem in jcNTUserFolder. I want to start developpement again on jcNTUserFolder, but don't hold your breathe :-) regards, jephte.clain(a)univ-reunion.fr

1 0