[ZWeb] NZO pre-alpha Announcement and Call for volunteers
Paul Everitt
paul@eurozope.org
Sat, 15 Feb 2003 21:50:44 +0100
Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> Greetings from the warm Brazil!
>
> Im writing today to let everyone be aware that the pre-alpha of NZO is
> ready and accessible from http://dev.nzo.zope.org.
>
> Im calling it pre-alpha because a lot of last-minute problems
> appeared when running the last batch of migration, so it isnt ready
> enough to call it an alpha.
Well done! We'll all need to have some patience on the first few
pre-releases. Migration is going to be a process of discovery.
> Heres the actual state:
>
> - All content migrated, except Trackers and UserFolders.
>
> - XMLDocuments were migrated to ParsedXML but arent accessible
> because theres isnt a CMF-aware ParsedXML type.
There shouldn't be that many, right?
Does the migration script still report the number of each type?
> - DTML Methods, Page Templates, DTML Documents and Python Methods
> (eek!) arent accessible through the CMF interface for the same
> reason.
Page templates? Uhh, zope.org shouldn't have any of them. :^)
Previous edicts called for DTML Docs/Methods and Python Methods to be
rejected (not migrated) if they contained any DTML or other scripting.
Is this still the policy?
> - Almost all content in the site is in private state. Im running a
> script to publish the content in /Members and fix ownership right
> now. It should take at least another 2 hours to finish.
>
> So, what you can do?
>
> - You can go to http://dev.nzo.zope.org and log in using your account
> from zope.org
Done.
> - If your member folder was already fixed, you can see all your old
> content (and if it wasnt, just wait a few hours and it will be).
>
> - If you can see your old content, you can add /manage at the end of
> the URL for your member folder and access the ZMI.
>
> - You can search, create new content, whatever.
Regarding this, what kind of newfangled searching are you using?
Anything like relevance, etc.?
> And now, how I can use your help?
>
> - Many pages in Zope.org, including the frontpage are done in DTML. I
> would like to convert a big part of them, if not all to
> ZPT+PythonScripts.
This is indeed a good task for people to tackle. It can be done all
through-the-web at first, so people don't need to get a server login.
Will people need to have executed the contributor agreement and the
other thing to help on templates?
> - Many links are hardcoded to http://www.zope.org or
> http://dev.zope.org. Where possible, I would like to get this fixed
> either by using relative links or some other approach. Suggestions
> are welcome.
Guido once wrote a Python webcrawler. Maybe it could be adopted to
perform just this single task?
> - We now have workflow! So, I added a transition called 'obsolete'
> which kicks the content into 'obsolete' state, where it is removed
> from the catalog. I would like to have people walking around the
> site and marking obsolete content so on the next run of the
> migration script we can skip those objects.
Can you make this easier by putting a quicklink that appears only for
managers, so we don't have to do the extra clicking to mark it?
> Those are very simple tasks that dont require any skills. Just a
> little patience and a working mouse :P
>
> Another thing: We are using a Plone-based site. I already did some
> work on CSS starting from the what Limi did on
> http://limi.net:8080/nzo so it doesnt look too much like Plone. I
> would like to hear only suggestions and no 'I hate Plone' emails. No
> rant should come without a volunteering to fix the issue!
Looks like this plea has already been overlooked. :^(
--Paul