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@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@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/)