[Zope] Blogging Framework...

[alan runyan]

Hi.

CMFWeblog is in development in 'the collective'.
http://sf.net/projects/collective you can grab it
from CVS.  It needs testing but it appears to work
just fine and Ingeniweb is cleaning up the code. It currently supports 3 
APIs: MovableType, MetaWeblog,
and Blogger.

Since the blog entries are archetypes they can be
stored in a RDBMS, has transforms to/from MSWord or
other formats, and cuts down on the typical boilerplate
Zope/CMF code needed (just define the schema ;-).
 There is a 'ArcheRecipes' module in http://sf.net/projects/archetypes  
which has a few
examples.  Currently there is a contest underway looking for interesting 
ways of using Archetypes.

REQUIREMENTS:

  - RPCAuth (Released)

  - Archetypes (1.0beta2+)

  - CMF/Plone

I'm CCing Kamon and Sidnei who are working on the code.
The biggest obstacles that I know of before making a release is:

  - Testing from others

  - Cleaning up the code

  - Archetypes 1.0 release (hopefully by end of the month,
  but its currently stable and no significant changes should
  land before 1.0)

cheers,
~runyaga