Hi all - At long last, we are preparing to 'go live' with a new and improved zope.org. The new site will put an architecture in place that will make it easier to maintain and improve the site. We're planning to make the new site live as www.zope.org at the end of July. The current site will still be accessible as old.zope.org. We plan to keep the old site available for a reasonable amount of time to ensure that important content that may have been missed by the migration can be hand-moved, etc. We'll give plenty of notice before decommissioning the old instance. Q: What does this mean for zope.org members? Generally, all membership info and most content will be transitioned to the new site automatically. Due to the amount of content and the 'organic growth' of the current zope.org over time however, there may be some bits of content that are either missed or get broken in some subtle way during transition. If you maintain product releases, articles or other content on zope.org, it would be a good idea to check on it after the transition. If you find things missing, you should be able to find it on the old.zope.org site and add it manually to the new site. If you find something broken and you don't know why, let us know so we can fix it. Q: Will there be some kind of 'public beta' period? Not per se. Experience has shown that it is hard to drum up the critical mass of usage required to really uncover non-obvious issues using a separate 'beta' site. In addition, zope.org presents a challenge in that you really need a short and choreographed 'switchover' window due to the community- contribution nature of the site. Members generally don't want to contribute their content twice (once on a beta site and once on the 'real' site), and we also need to go live quickly after a final content migration to minimize the inconvenience for people who might contribute content in the window between final migration and the launch of the new site. Q: Will the transition be quick, painless and invisible? Ha ha - silly human. :) We know from experience during the last zope.org transition that there will a period of hand-fixing after the new site goes live. Leaving the old site accessible during the transition will help with any pain we experience. I'll send another note when we finalize the dates for the final content migration and go-live date. I want to keep the window between these down to a day if possible to minimize disruptions. Brian Lloyd brian@zope.com V.P. Engineering 540.361.1716 Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com