[Zope-Annce] June 17th Zope Weekly News
ethan mindlace fremen
mindlace@digicool.com
Sun, 17 Jun 2001 04:23:54 -0400
Metadata, Developer's Guide update, new Zope.org progress,
Lots of Page Template Proposals, and more in this week's news.
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and not the opinions of Digital Creations, The Zope Community
at-large, or the Spanish Inquisition.
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Upcoming Events
EuroZope Conference
The EuroZope crew is organizing a two
day Zope only conference in Berlin on the 12th
and 13th of July.
Those interested in participating should join the
discussion on the "EuroZope mailinglist",
http://www.comlounge.net/mailman/listinfo/eurozope
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Zope Developer's Guide
by Michel Pelletier
I'm happy to announce a new release of the Zope Developer's Guide,
"available in HTML format",
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZDG/
The new guide contains many improvements and elaborations over the
previous HTML release, and has benefited from the review and contributions
from many community members including well-known object-orienteers Jim
Fulton, Guido van Rossum and Bruce Eckel.
This will be the last "preview" release of the Dev guide before we release
the first edition alongside the release of Zope 2.4.
As usual, any problems suggestions should be noted in the
"SourceForge tracker",
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zope-devel/
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CMF News
by Seb and Jon
Traffic on zope-cmf was a little calmer this week, and the majority of it
seemed
to come from people noticing that the CMFDecor product doesn't work.
Andrew
"suggests":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007488.html
removing the CMF Decor folder for now. In the mean time, don't worry -
it's not
an essential part of the CMF.
Workgroups
It's not always clear how to apply Zope's Security machinery to
'workgroup'
scenarios. Jens
"posted":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007537.html
his ideas for implementing Workgroups in CMF. Shane
"showed":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007578.html
how
you might accomplish a similar thing using his cutting-edge DCWorkflow.
The discussion continued in a slightly different direction following
"Scott's
post":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007577.html
on subjects/metadata. Will CMF become the "weapon of choice" for
intranet managers?
Metadata - The Next Generation
The use and application of Dublin Core Metadata has come under scrutiny
this week.
Tim Lynch
"posted":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007434.html
some useful background information on the uses of Dublin Core in the
"World Outside CMF" (tm) - to which Tres
"responded":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007448.html
with more details of DC's perspective on the DC.
Subclassing the DublinCore each time you want to extend it can be a bit
of a
pain. Shane
"proposes":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007570.html
a new implementation; Tres turns fashion-guru and introduces
"aspect
bags":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007587.html
- every well dressed content-object will be carrying one this summer.
"Aspect oriented
programming":http://www.parc.xerox.com/csl/projects/aop/?
Lesser mortals reach for their
"dictionaries":http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/highley99aspect.html!
Bite-Sized Chunks
Seb released a
"first
cut":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007608.html
of his Mailin Product. We're one step closer to updating from the
beach!
Chris W leaked the news that Swishdot will incorporate this
functionality,
giving a mailinglist/weblog cross - genetic-engineering at its best!
Some useful
"tips":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007474.html
from Jeff on how to get CMFWiki working from CVS...
and Tres
"clarifies":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007501.html
DC's thinking on the future of this product. In short, you can use it,
but it's
not 'supported' officially.
"Zopefish":http://zopefish.weblogs.com/2001/06/08 dives into CMF.
Onlookers drool at the prospect of Zopefish/CMF integration! Has
anyone told "Dave Winer":http://www.scripting.com?
Marc's Colour-Guide undergoes
"cosmetic surgery":http://cmf.zope.org/Members/grifter70000/color_guide,
courtesy of Dr Grifter.
Are you thinking of running several CMFs in the same Zope instance?
Want to share common skins? So does
"Chris
W":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007500.html -
Shane
"suggests":http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-June/007509.html
filesystem-based skins
The "CMF Dogbowl Calendar":http://cmf.zope.org/calendar/calendar is up
and
running. One to watch for forthcoming Zope-related events.
Silly Stats
(last week's figures in brackets)::
159 messages (350)
42 people posted (50)
55% were by 12% of people (70%:40%)
8 bugs were resolved (?)
3 were submitted (?)
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Page Templates
Page Templates are already quite useful, but there's been a lot
of activity lately on "proposed changes",
http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/ProposedChanges
including
* Replace Inner Text -- editors tend to be a touch indiscriminant
about how they mark up code: your attribute markup can have
font tags and other markup inserted inside it. What should happen then?
* Variable Expansion in Paths -- it would be nice if the path could
include components that are actually variables.
* Disappearing tags -- it would be nice if some marked up tags went
away after they are done doing their dynamic thing. A new tal attribute
and a block tag have been proposed as solutions.
* Search And Replace -- somewhat related to the prior issue, having some
way of specifying placeholders that indicate items to be replaced
in non-marked up text (think JavaScript) would be nice.
* Commenting -- A tal:comment directive?
There's more! Go to the page templates project and join in the discussion.
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Zope Web
by Ethan Fremen
"Zope.org enhancement",
http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZopeOrgCollaborationEnhancement
Skin Madness ...Page Templates are a lot of fun. At the end of this
project you'll
be able to view_source on the zope.org site and get loads of good ZPT
examples!
The "workflow",
http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZopeOrgCollaborationEnhancement/
WorkFlow
has received a lot of work, thanks to Jens Vagelpohl. Work on a
redirector to support
the migration machinery is also near completion, thanks to Andreas Jung.
-EOT-