Zope FAQ 0.2 - About this FAQ and the Zope Documention Project * What is this FAQ? This FAQ is a project of the Zope Documentation Project, and aims to answer any (or at least lost) questions you might have about Zope and how to use it. * What is the Zope Documentation Project? The Zope Documentation Project (ZDP) is a community project of Zope users that aims to create documentation for Zope. The first goal of the ZDP is the creation and maintenance of an extensive Zope FAQ, later on other documentation will follow. We welcome everybody to contribute; for instance by sending in questions and answers for the FAQ. * Where is the rest of this FAQ? The Zope FAQ has been split into separate sections. If you are reading this on the ZDP mailing list, you should see the other documents posted as well. If you are reading this on zope@zope.org or zope-dev@zope.org, you will only see this message. The Zope FAQ is under development. It is probably already useful, but because I don't want to spam everybody you will have to look at the ZDP list to see the rest of the FAQ. Everyone is very welcome to join the ZDP list. You can also wait until the ZDP has its web infrastructure going and the FAQ is published on the web. This will hopefully be very soon; we're working on it. * How do I contribute? The Zope Documentation Project has its own mailing list (zdp@zope.org). You are encouraged to use this list for all ZDP related communications. Please do not send your messages (such as FAQ contributions) to Martijn Faassen (the current FAQ maintainer) if your message can be sent to the mailing list instead. * How do I join the ZDP mailing list? You can subscribe to the ZDP mailing list by using the page:: http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zdp Thanks in advance for your contributions! * Are there other Zope-related FAQs? Yes, there is the "Zope Questions and Answers" at:: http://www.zope.org/Information/QA/ This is maintained by Digital Creations; currently it is the best place to look if you are brand new to Zope. That said, Paul Everitt of Digital Creations has kindly contributed the Zope Questions and Answers to the ZDP (or vice versa; the ZDP is contributing to the Q&A). The ZDP plans to merge the two FAQs shortly. * What is Structured Text and what does it have to do with this FAQ? The FAQ is (currently) written in Structured Text, so you may very well reading the FAQ in Structured Text format (the double colons and the indented paragraph structure give it away). If you are just reading this FAQ you shouldn't worry about it. If you plan to contribute to the ZDP we'd prefer it if your contributions were written in Structured Text, however. For more information see the Structured Text section of this FAQ. * What are these FIXME comments I see scattered through the FAQ? If you are reading the ZDP mailing list or its archives, then it is the FAQ's editor (or possibly a contributor) who is not entirely sure about some details on Zope, and is asking people on the list to help figure it out. If you are reading this FAQ somewhere else, then oops, they don't belong there. Please send a message to the zdp@zope.org list telling us about it, and thanks! * What other sections does this FAQ have? We currently have sections on: o DTML o Zope Administration o Structured Text o External Methods o Builtin Products o Product Development