January 2010 - Zope-Dev

zope.sendmail RFC: start background thread on ProcessStarting event
by Marius Gedminas 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

zope.sendmail has this nasty habit of starting a background thread during ZCML conguration, if your ZCML contains a <queuedDelivery> directive. This is Very Bad(TM) if you use things like debugzope, since you end up with two processes watching your mail queue, which can easily result in duplicate emails getting sent. Fabio Tranchitella recently released zope.sendmail 3.8.0 which fixes the problem in the following way: * you edit <queuedDelivery> and set processorThread="false" to suppress that thread * you edit your init.d scripts and start a new daemon (zope-sendmail) to watch the queue I recently came up with a different and perhaps a bit simpler solution: * make zope.sendmail not start the thread during ZCML processing, instead make it listen for ProcessStarting events and start the thread then. It would have the following advantages: * it would make the _default_ configuration of zope.sendmail (which is processorThread=true for BBB reasons) not quite as broken as it is now * simpler administration: no need to figure out what new daemon you need to start and how to do that. * it could be backported to older zope.sendmail bugfix releases (e.g. 3.5.2). and the following disadvantages: * it's a kinda redundant solution for the same problem * ProcessStarting is not necessarily emitted on Zope startup, e.g. I think it's not used if you deploy a Zope-3-based WSGI app What do other people think? Marius Gedminas -- http://pov.lt/ -- Zope 3 consulting and development

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[ZF] Announcement: 2010 Zope Foundation Board Elections and General Meeting
by Tres Seaver 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (apologies in advance for the cross-post: we need this to reach the whole Zope community). The Zope Foundation board is pleased to announce the regular 2010 general meeting of the foundation will be held on Wednesday, 24 February 2010, at 17:00 UTC. The meeting will be conducted via IRC at the following channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/#zope-foundation Prior to that meeting, the current board will conduct an elections in which foundation members will select seven (7) board members in accordance with the foundation bylaws[1]. Summary - ------- - - Nominations open via the foundation(a)zope.org mailing list until Friday, 2010-01-29. - - Voting via e-mail to a closed mailing list, from Wednesday, 2010-02-03 through Friday, 2010-02-19. - - Votes tallied by representatives of the current board, using "Meek and Warrent STV" method using OpenSTV software. - - General meeting and seating of the new board, Wednesday, 2010-02-24. Procedure for Elections - ----------------------- The procedure for the elections is as follows: - - Foundation members may nominate any member by responding to the board's announcment on the foundation(a)zope.org maling list. Nominations will remain open until Friday, 2010-01-29, 23:00 UTC. - - At the close of the nominations period, the board will create a new mailman list, 'zf-elections-2010', and approve all ZF members to post to the list.. In order to preserve anonymity of votes, foundation members will not be subscribers to the list; access to the list archives will be restricted to the "tellers" appointed by the board. - - On Wednesday, 2010-02-03, the Secretary will send an e-mail announcing the opening of the voting period. This email will contain the ballot, with careful instructions about how to rank preferences in the reply. The Reply-to header of this e-mail will be set to the 'zf-elections-2010' list. - - ZF members will vote by replying to that e-mail. Voting will remain open until Friday, 2010-02-19, 23:00 UTC. - - At the close of voting, the board will appoint two of its members as "tellers." The tellers will use the list archive to tabulate the members' votes, using the OpenSTV application[2] configured to use the Meek and Warren STV method[3]. The tellers will report the election results, along with the raw tallies, at a special board meeting to be held on Tuesday, 2009-02-23, 15:00 UTC. - - After canvassing the results from the tellers, the board will notify all nominees of the success / failure of their candidacy, thanking them for their willingness to serve. - - At the general meeting, the last item on the agenda will the announcement of the election results, including a vote to "seat" the board. An online version of this announcement is available at: http://foundation.zope.org/news/2010_election_and_general_meeting/ References - ---------- [1] http://foundation.zope.org/bylaws/zope_foundation_bylaws.pdf [2] http://stv.sourceforge.net/aboutopenstv [3] http://stv.sourceforge.net/votingmethods/meek Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tseaver(a)palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktZ3V8ACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6sDQCfbV+M85FnxeiSypdy0WBHle1A 7+sAn2aZoP5pb0sqK4ir84d9rhm09HiO =urx1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Zope Tests: 6 OK
by Zope Tests Summarizer 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

Summary of messages to the zope-tests list. Period Wed Jan 27 12:00:00 2010 UTC to Thu Jan 28 12:00:00 2010 UTC. There were 6 messages: 6 from Zope Tests. Tests passed OK --------------- Subject: OK : Zope-2.10 Python-2.4.6 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Wed Jan 27 20:37:07 EST 2010 URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-January/013461.html Subject: OK : Zope-2.11 Python-2.4.6 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Wed Jan 27 20:39:08 EST 2010 URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-January/013462.html Subject: OK : Zope-2.12 Python-2.6.4 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Wed Jan 27 20:41:08 EST 2010 URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-January/013463.html Subject: OK : Zope-2.12-alltests Python-2.6.4 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Wed Jan 27 20:43:08 EST 2010 URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-January/013464.html Subject: OK : Zope-trunk Python-2.6.4 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Wed Jan 27 20:45:08 EST 2010 URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-January/013465.html Subject: OK : Zope-trunk-alltests Python-2.6.4 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Wed Jan 27 20:47:08 EST 2010 URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-January/013466.html

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Need access to download.zope.org
by Baiju M 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

Hi, As part of BlueBream release, we want to release Buildout configuration files to: http://download.zope.org/bluebream/bluebream-x.x.x .cfg Ref: http://wiki.zope.org/bluebream/ReleasingBlueBream Can anyone help me to create a top-level directory named "bluebream" in that server ? Also I need access to scp files to that directory. My zope.org username is 'baijum' Regards, Baiju M

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Moving discussions about BlueBream to new list
by Baiju M 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

Hi All, BlueBream project is moving technical discussions to bluebream(a)zope.org list. You are welcome to join: https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/bluebream We started discussing about release preparations now: https://mail.zope.org/pipermail/bluebream/2010-January/000059.html Regards, Baiju M

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Zope Tests: 6 OK
by Zope Tests Summarizer 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

Summary of messages to the zope-tests list. Period Tue Jan 26 12:00:00 2010 UTC to Wed Jan 27 12:00:00 2010 UTC. There were 6 messages: 6 from Zope Tests. Tests passed OK --------------- Subject: OK : Zope-2.10 Python-2.4.6 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Tue Jan 26 20:36:35 EST 2010 URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-January/013455.html Subject: OK : Zope-2.11 Python-2.4.6 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Tue Jan 26 20:38:35 EST 2010 URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-January/013456.html Subject: OK : Zope-2.12 Python-2.6.4 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Tue Jan 26 20:40:35 EST 2010 URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-January/013457.html Subject: OK : Zope-2.12-alltests Python-2.6.4 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Tue Jan 26 20:42:36 EST 2010 URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-January/013458.html Subject: OK : Zope-trunk Python-2.6.4 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Tue Jan 26 20:44:36 EST 2010 URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-January/013459.html Subject: OK : Zope-trunk-alltests Python-2.6.4 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Tue Jan 26 20:46:36 EST 2010 URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-January/013460.html

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Legal formalities to accept log and design
by Baiju M 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

Hi, I would like to know the legal formalities required to accept a logo (with special font). Also I would like to know the same for web design. Is there any guideline for Zope Foundation ? BlueBream team want to use a logo designed by an external person: http://muthukadan.net/bluebream/bluebream-logo-v1.png The font used there (Perizia: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Perizia_fonts) is designed by the same designer and released under GPL. One of my friend has offered a web design for the site (not done yet). Regards, Baiju M

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zope.testing coverage support
by Martin Aspeli 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Hi, A couple of questions about zope.testing's --coverage option: 1. When specifying the coverage output directory, I have to specify an absolute path: ./bin/test -s plone.caching --coverage="$(pwd)/coverage" works ./bin/test -s plone.caching --coverage="coverage" does not. Is this intentional? It took me ages to figure out this was necessary. 2. Is there anything that can read the coverage output files and present them with syntax highlighting and highlight problem areas? I know other tools (like Cobertura) have this. Is there a standard, or is it a custom format? 3. I get coverage reporting for my tests (i.e. it lists coverage of the tests package). The PyPI page for zope.testing talks about ignoring tests, but that part of the doctest is not useful as documentation. Is this a bug or a feature or something I'm supposed to be specifying on the command line? I'm using zope.testing-3.7.7, which is what comes with Zope 2.12. Martin -- Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book

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zope.testing 3.8.7: downgrade the deprecation warning
by Marius Gedminas 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

I got tired of seeing things like /home/mg/tmp/buildout-eggs/zope.testing-3.8.6-py2.5.egg/zope/testing/testrunner/debug.py:23: DeprecationWarning: zope.testing.doctest is deprecated in favour of the Python standard library doctest module from zope.testing import doctest and since zope.testing's trunk hasn't got the problem fully licked yet (importing zope.testing.renormalizing causes a deprecation warning about zope.testing.doctest), I created a 3.8 branch based on the last public zope.testing release (3.8.6), downgraded the DeprecationWarning into a PendingDeprecationWarning, and released zope.testing 3.8.7. zope.testing's trunk is henceforth known as 3.9.0pre. Any ideas about fixing the deprecation warning caused by renormalizing.py? All it does is 'import doctest' which, due to Python's unfortunate import semantics, is interpreted as 'from zope.testing import doctest' Perhaps a from __future__ import absolute_import would help at the top? But it's only availably starting from Python 2.5, and I think zope.testing wants to be compatible with Python 2.4 too. Ideas? Marius Gedminas -- http://pov.lt/ -- Zope 3 consulting and development

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Zope Tests: 6 OK
by Zope Tests Summarizer 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Summary of messages to the zope-tests list. Period Mon Jan 25 12:00:00 2010 UTC to Tue Jan 26 12:00:00 2010 UTC. There were 6 messages: 6 from Zope Tests. Tests passed OK --------------- Subject: OK : Zope-2.10 Python-2.4.6 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Mon Jan 25 20:36:30 EST 2010 URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-January/013449.html Subject: OK : Zope-2.11 Python-2.4.6 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Mon Jan 25 20:38:30 EST 2010 URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-January/013450.html Subject: OK : Zope-2.12 Python-2.6.4 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Mon Jan 25 20:40:30 EST 2010 URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-January/013451.html Subject: OK : Zope-2.12-alltests Python-2.6.4 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Mon Jan 25 20:42:30 EST 2010 URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-January/013452.html Subject: OK : Zope-trunk Python-2.6.4 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Mon Jan 25 20:44:30 EST 2010 URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-January/013453.html Subject: OK : Zope-trunk-alltests Python-2.6.4 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Mon Jan 25 20:46:30 EST 2010 URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-January/013454.html

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