[ZWeb] News and Product listings broken

[Andrew Sawyers]

Michael Haubenwallner wrote:

> Chris Withers wrote:
>
>> Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
>>
>>> Creators/Reviewers of "News Items" or "Software Releases":
>>>
>>> please be aware, that due to a change in the catalog-query
>>> your news will be shown in the areas on zope.org frontpage
>>> (right column, bottom) _only_ if you set the "Effective Date"
>>> when publishing the item.
>>
>>
>>
>> If you're made this change, you need to announce it more widely.
>> I'd suggest zope at zope.org and zope-announce at a minimum...
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
> No, i have not made that change - i (for the 3rd time now) just inform 
> people that a change has been made.
>
> Michael
>
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Tres made the change some time ago - he and I spoke about it the other 
night, and it seems that the content objects are not getting a sane 
default if it's not explicitly set.  I think the right fix would be to 
use 'now' if the Effective Date isn't supplied.
Andrew

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