Zope Book, was Re: [Zope-dev] The bleak Future of Zope?
Chris McDonough
chrism at plope.com
Wed Apr 21 14:17:28 EDT 2004
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 14:10, Peter Sabaini wrote:
> Chris McDonough wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 10:18, Peter Sabaini wrote:
> >
> Ok then...
>
> I think the following issues would deserve attention:
>
> * Installing chapter: I'm working on it and hope to finish soon (no
> really this time!)
Cool, I'll pick another chapter then!
> * Maintaining chapter update
I'll pick that one. ;-)
>
> * Creating Basic Zope Applications: I've been wanting to extend and
> incorporate Jon Whiteners version but never got around to it
This is important.
>
> * Using Zope Page Templates: judging by the comments there seem to be
> some trouble spots there
Yup. It's ripe for attention like the attention you gave to
Maintaining. ;-)
> * Reference: IMHO one of the trickier things, especially for the API
> Ref. because one would first have to decide what constitutes the API and
> what is simply Zope core...
I think we should continue to ignore the API ref except for addressing
specific corrective comments made against it. The API ref is terrible,
but unless someone has a spare few weeks on their hands to go through
Zope and define APIs, that's the best we're going to do.
> * A chapter TOC: it would be great if we could have an inter-chapter
> table of contents; would greatly help navigation esp. in longer chapters
> -- I seem to recall that someone once mentioned working on such a
> feature -- Paul maybe?
Yes, it's in BackTalk CVS. I just need to convince ZC to install the
newest BackTalk.
> * Lots of weeding out comments resp. incorporating answers
Yeah..
>
> * Generating PDFs
>
> Anything else?
Backporting changes to the 2.6 edition, although I think this should be
low priority!
- C
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