Hi all. As announced elsewhere (and described in https://dev.launchpad.net/OpenSourcing) , Canonical's Launchpad project is working towards open-sourcing the majority of the code base by this summer. Prior and subsequent to the "grand open-sourcing" date, the Launchpad developers are encouraged to abstract stand-alone code for distributions. Since Launchpad uses several Zope libraries, some of the stand-alone packages may be of special interest to the Zope community. Unsurprisingly (at least if you know Launchpad), the packages use bzr for revision control, and Launchpad for codehosting, bug tracking, and so on. Currently we are standardizing on zc.buildout-based releases for these packages. We have two at the moment: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lazr.delegates Provides an interesting Python delegation pattern. Uses zope.interface. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lazr.config Helps build a configuration system (of whatever, but used here for process configuration). I'm not the author, just a messenger and liaison (and the guy who made the distros, in this case). (I did add some cookie conveniences to testbrowser recenty though--check out zope.testbrowser 1.6a1 if you want a look. :-) I, or other folks, will hopefully get a chance to send out other announcements of this sort in the future! Gary