[Zope-Annce] ANN: PloneCollectorNG 1.1.0 Beta 3 released

[Andreas Jung]

I am pleased to announce the release of

   PloneCollectorNG 1.1.0 beta 3(PCNG)

PCNG is a bugtracking system for Plone. It is based on the concepts and
ideas of CMFCollector and CMFCollectorNG but it is a complete re-write.

PCNG is a very generic and open framework (you can configure nearly
everything TTW).

This release **REQUIRES Archetypes AT 1.3**. **Older Archetypes versions
(including 1.2.1) WILL NOT WORK**.  This major step was necessary because
a lot Archetypes hacks in PCNG 1.0.0 were backported to Archetypes CVS/HEAD.

This release also breaks compatibility with portal_forms. CMFFormController
is now mandatory.

There is a risk that this release might break an existing PCNG instance.
So BACKUP YOUR DATA first. The goal for 1.1.0 final is to be compatible
with exisitings installations so please let me know if there are any 
problems.


Changes since 1.1.0 beta 2:


     - SchemaEditor raised an AttributeError if 'Create index' has not been 
selected for
       an Archetypes field

     - Removed german email formatter. The standard email formatter now 
supports all
       languages (available through the !PlacelessTranslationService)

     - using the Archetypes API to accessing or storing  fields (no longer 
using
       the storage interface directly)

     - fixed several unicode related problems which caused problems with 
Plone sites
       using UTF8 as site encoding

     - pdfwriter ships with the Vera truetype font provided for free for 
open-source
       projects by Bitstream (www.bitstream.com). This is necessary because 
Reportlab
       is not directly capable to generate PDFs from UTF8 encoded text 
without hacks

     - PlacelessTranslationService: This version of !PloneCollectorNG 
**requires**
       an up-to-date version of PTS (best to get a CVS checkout from the 
OpenTal
       CVS, see http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/opental). Older version 
will
       raise an !AttributeError 'as_unicode' exception.

     - Unicode support rewritten: The transcript is now completely 
unicode-based.
       Email formatters and pdf writter use unicode for generating the 
corresponding
       output.

       IF YOU UPGRADE FROM FORMER VERSIONS OF PloneCollectorNG:

         - backup your Data.fs (!) first

         - for every PloneCollectorNG instance you **MUST**  run the 
'migrateUnicode'
           script on the instance to convert the collectors transcript to 
unicode by
           calling 
http://host:port/plone/somecollectorinstance/migrateUnicode



Volunteers wanted:

  PloneCollectorNG is fully internationalized. If you want PCNG to support 
your language
  that translate the catalog file (i18n folder) to your language and submit 
it to me.



Documentation Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/PloneCollectorNG

Download: http://sf.net/projects/collective

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