Planet Zope blog

Mrs Pinnet: But surely they can connect up a gas cooker?
First Gas Man: Oh yeah, we could connect it up, love, but not unless it’s an emergency. - Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Episode 14

This time it’s all about [Zope3-dev]. We’ve got great discussions on

• Zope 3 as a reliable platform?!? - Christian Theune: ‘this is a rant. I don’t want to be destructive or disruptive, but I feel like I need to turn this up right now…’
• Zope 3.2 maintenance: ‘Many issues are already fixed on the 3.3 branch and trunk […] that were never backported to the current stable branch’
• a Roadmap for Zope 3.4: ‘… the grand plan for Zope 3.4 is the eggification …’
• and a Release schedule for Zope 2.11/3.4

Finally Philipp von Weitershausen sums up the Release management refinements:

Over the last couple of days we’ve been discussing Zope’s new release cycle and the release management. I would like to sum up what seems to be the gist of those discussions…

Releases

• Zope.org: Zope 3.3.0c1

Useful Links

• Python Cheese Shop : lxml 1.1 - Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.
• svn.zope.org: z3c.zalchemy integrates the object relational mapper SQLAlchemy into Zope 3 as SQLOS integrates sqlobject.
• tigris.org: Subversion 1.4.0 released
• unicode.org: Unicode 5.0.0 is a major version of the Unicode Standard and supersedes all previous versions
• Pocoo is an open-source bulletin board software (aka message board) written in Python
• Martin Fowler: Writing Software Patterns - A common definition of a pattern is that it is a solution to a problem in a context
• mnot’s Web log: Caching Web 2.0
• Lennart Regebro: Triage of bugs in an open-source world. - The word “triage” in programming has been around for a while, but seem to have gained popularity lately. What it is, is basically a new word for “bugprioritizing”, being easier to say and spell …

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(12:50:50) philiKON: we are the zorg. resistance is futile. adaption is necessary - #zope3-dev

Chris McDonough details us on ‘Adaptation for Busy People‘. A description of the purpose and usage of Zope’s adaptation machinery in fewer than 1500 words.

Developers tend to write what they are best at, code and tests.
There is a lot of great Zope3 documentation, APIdocs et al.
But there are still a lot of docs missing.

I wish we had more of these…

Philipp von Weitershausen: “But Zope 3 has no products!” Bzzzt. Wrong.
Let’s load ‘em up to the Python Cheeseshop so that people can find them, perhaps even people who are not yet using Zope 3.

Gary Poster announces a number of newly open-sourced packages ([Zope3-dev] New open-sourced Zope Corporation packages)

Guido van Rossum pronounced Django The Python Web Framework, read up on reactions:

• Django - Oh My God It’s Django!
• TurboGears - There can’t be only one
• Python - Why Zope doesn’t count
• even more statements - Technorati search…

Releases

• CMF-1.5.7 - The 1.5.7 release represents a pure bug fix/maintenance release without feature additions.
• Zope 2.10.0b2 - Zope 2.10.0 second beta release
• Zope 3.3.0b2 - Zope 3.3.0 second beta release
• PluggableAuthService-1.4 - The PluggableAuthenticationService (PAS) is a mini-framework for extensible and configurable authentication, and authorization of users within Zope.

Sprints, Conference News & Press Announcements

German Speaking Zope Usersgroup Conference 2006
2006-09-14 to 2006-09-15, St. Augustin (Bonn/Rhein-Sieg), Germany
The German Speaking Zope Users Group holds it’s annual conference on 14. and 15. September 2006

Useful Links

• Zope3, the missing docs: IRC log of #zope3-dev: What is the difference between ITraverser, ITraversable and IPublishTraverse?
• svn.zope.org: Zope Element Tree Support - This package does not implement the ElementTree API but instead provides proxy objects that wrap some of the more common ElementTree implementations.
• W3C: CSS Module: Namespaces - This CSS module defines the syntax for using namespaces in CSS. It introduces the @namespace rule for declaring the default namespace and binding namespaces to namespace prefixes, and it defines a syntax that other specifications can adopt for using those
• developerWorks Interviews: Tim Berners-Lee - podcast transcript
• www.effbot.org: The ElementSoup Module is an experimental wrapper for Leonard Richardson’s BeautifulSoup parser, which turns the BeautifulSoup data structure into an element tree.
• Jeremy Hylton: Python 3000 Translation Strategy - The basic strategy for transforming Python programs to run on Python 3000 is to parse the code to generate an abstract syntax tree (AST), write each transformation as a separate pass over the AST, and emit the modified AST as source code.
• dp.SyntaxHighlighter - free JavaScript syntax highlighting

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