Thanks for organizing this Alan. Hopefully folks will follow your lead and contribute. Agendaless put some money into the pot today. On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 14:19 -0500, Alan Runyan wrote:

The blog: http://zodbdocs.blogspot.com/

I am coordinating an effort to have a ZODB book written by one of our Zope clan, Carlos de la Guardia. He has completed a recent book for Packt publishing on Grok. He showed interested in writing a ZODB book if it were under Creative Commons. I have set up a blog and focused on behind-the-scenes coordination required to make the book happen.

We are now at a point where:

- There is an initial outline of topics to cover. - There is a way to contribute financially on the ZODB Docs Blog (through paypal). - If you can contribute to the book with written material and experience. Let me know. I will make a contributor on the blog and you can post articles. Carlos is more than happy to consolidate/pinch material (and of course give the original author credit) and put it into the final book. One of the thoughts would be to write ZODB mini-howtos/articles on the blog. Some initial ideas: transaction module (datamanagers, aftercommithook, etc), debugging scenarios (how to debug a record being mutated accidentally), conflict resolution (writing your own custom impl, btree bucket splits, etc), concurrency, any benchmarking information you have, relstorage, writing your own persistence format (keas.pbpersist?), or query strategies for ZODB. There is a lot of material to cover in this book. - There are also contribution/funding levels available which correlate to recognition of your donation in the book. That is right. Give money and you go down in history in the documentation *wink*

We will have a revised outline of the book by Monday evening from Carlos. If you want to contribute material to the Blog -- let me know. You have a channel to voice your experience.

More information is on the blog and will be updated as more progress is made. Again the blog is at, http://zodbdocs.blogspot.com/ -- please sign up and subscribe to the RSS feed.

I am open for any feedback. I desperately want to get the larger community support and feedback early as possible. Please feel free to send comments, concerns, criticisms.

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