*Apologies for publishing the first issue in advance of this explanation: my "trigger finger" bounced on the mouse.!* What is Zope GotW? Zope GotW is a "contest," run on the Zope@zope.org mailing list, where the prize is undying glory. ZGotW is designed to highlight some of the non-obvious corners of Zope usage -- the Zope Zen of the True Guru. The idea is drawn from the popular C++ GotW run by Herb Sutter on comp.lang.c++. How does it work? 1. Members of the Zope community submit suggested problems for future issues using the "Submit an Issue Topic" link in the navigation bar. 2. The Editor selects a topic for a new issue, either from among the submissions or on his own, and identifies a Reviewer for the topic, soliciting agreement from the Reviewer. 3. The Editor pretties up the issue and publishes it, which causes it to appear in the "Current Issues" secion of the site's navigation bar, and sends e-mail to the Zope list containing the question and a link to the issue's page. 4. Zope community members respond to the issue, posting their solutions via the issue's page. These solutions are mailed to the Reviewer, and optionally, to the Zope list for discussion. 5. At the end of the issue's "life" (normally a week), the Reviewer closes the issue to new submissions, summarizes the responses, awards "guru points", and posts a full solution. This solution is then mailed to the Zope list, where it may provoke further discussion. Where is the Code? I have set up a Software Product on my Zope.org homepage: "ZGotW Product":http://www.zope/org/Members/tseaver/ZGotW ToDo's * Add search functionaliy (the Catalog is already there, just needs UI). * Add knob to allow submitter/editor/contestant/reviewer to upload one or more files with their message (the message is already folderish). -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com 713-523-6582 Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com