[Zope-PTK] ZWN 2000/06/13 -- PTK

[Tres Seaver]

This week in the PTK Community

 * David Brown, author of 
   "Zope Fish":http://zopefish.weblogs.com/ZopeFishRelease,
   agreed to join TeamPTK.  Welcome!

 * We arrived at protocol for gaining consensus on proposed changes:

   - Create a tracker issue embodying the proposal (which then
     emails the list).

   - Discuss the proposal in email, copying significant arguments to
     the tracker.

   - Finally, one TeamPTK member accepts the item, makes the changes,
     and posts the patch/update.

   - After a final "speak now or forever hold your peace" interval,
     TeamPTK member checks in changes.

 * Bill Anderson found a workaround for the problem of DTML methods
   "losing" other methods inside the portal:

    <URL http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-June/000940.html>

 * Dan Pierson checked in his patches integrating the PTK with the
   new LoginManager:

    <URL http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-June/000937.html>

 * Dan also proposed fixing "Discussable" items such that they *always*
   display their discussion:

    <URL http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/Tracker/93>

 * Kevin Dangoor posted a tracker issue describing the difficulty of
   customizing the display of PortalContent objects:

    <URL http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/Tracker/94>

 * Tres Seaver created a somewhat terse How-To on creating PortalContent
   classes as ZClasses:

    <URL
http://yyy.zope.org/Products/PTK/ZWiki/CreatingAPortalContentZClass>

 * Tres also wrapped up the "vision" statement for the PTK-NG:

    <URL http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/ZWiki/OnceAndFuturePTK>

 * Phillip Eby delivered a wonderful "motivation" piece for the
ZPatterns
   meta-framework he and Ty Sarna have been building (and which
underlies
   LoginManager):

    <URL http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2000-June/005323.html>

 * Shane Hathaway replied with a nice "file clerk" analogy for the
   ZPatterns:

    <URL http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2000-June/005352.html>

 * Kevin Dangoor released a new Membership product, which packages the
   LoginManager in a more "friendly" bundle:

     http://www.zope.org/Members/tazzzzz/Membership

   He is asking for testers, with the goal of re-integrating the package
   with the PTK after a shakeout.

 * A new discussion on refactoring some of the dependencies between
   PTKBase and PTKDemo:

    <URL http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-June/000962.html>

   yielded two Tracker issues:

    <URL http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/Tracker/96>

    <URL http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/Tracker/97>

Looking Ahead

 * Re-integrate Kevin Dangoor's Membership product

 * Land proposed refactoring of concrete PortalContent and of
Discussable
   decoupling.

 * Discuss integrating ZPatterns more closely into PortalContent.


PTK Tracker Vitals, WE 2000/06/13

Type / Status   New     Closed     Current

  Bug Reports    4         0          19

  Feature/Doc
     Requests    1         0          15


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