‘King of Swamp Castle: Not like that, not like that! No! Stop it! Nooo!’ - Monty Python and the Holy Grail

So that’s been a great year of Zope News.
After 12 months and 22 issues the service is now visited 500+ times a day from 2000+ different hosts a month. High time to discontinue the newsletter in the current format.

Thank you for your interest and stay tuned for something completely different in 2007.

Releases

• Zope.org - FSDump-0.9.3 - Tres Seaver: version 0.9.3 of my FSDump product. This product does “one-way” capture of through-the-web code / content to the filesystem
• [Zope-Annce] PluggableAuthService 1.4.1 Released - Tres Seaver: This is a bugfix release, and is a recommended upgrade for sites currently running PAS 1.4
• [Zope-Annce] Silva 1.5.9 Released - Kit BLAKE: Infrae has just released version 1.5.9 of the Silva content management system
• Twiddler - Chris Withers: A simple but flexible templating system for dynamically generating textual output

Useful Links

• JsonML (JSON Markup Language) - The purpose of JsonML is to provide a compact format for transporting XML-based data via JSON
• The Atom Publishing Protocol - Version 12
• Python Cheese Shop : livecoding 1.0 - Live coding support library for Python
• Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox : Progressive Disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone.

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‘Are We There Yet?’ - Anonymous

Two rather silent weeks - help collecting (instructions) news.

Releases

• Zope.org - Zope2.10.1 released
• Zope.org - Zope2.9.6 release

Useful Links

• z3/jsonserver
• Using JSON with Google Data APIs - Blogger, Calendar, and Google Base can provide feed data in JSON format as well as in Atom and RSS formats.
• PyCon: Keynote Speakers for PyCon 2007
• ASPN : Python Cookbook : Raymond Hettinger: ElementTree Text Helper - Solves the “tail-problem” for prose-oriented XML. Recursively pulls text out of elements and their sub-elements. Extracts text from DocBook, XMHTL, and other nested XML markup
• Python Cheese Shop : wsgiakismet 0.1 - Akismet SPAM blocking WSGI middleware.
• Python Cheese Shop : Nathan R. Yergler: rdfadict 0.2 - Simple RDFa parser and dictionary-like interface. — looks pretty much like good fun, sadly needs lxml
• XProc: An XML Pipeline Language - An XML Pipeline specifies a sequence of operations to be performed on one or more XML documents, producing one or more XML documents as output. Steps in the pipeline may read or write non-XML resources as well

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‘I would actually bet on Jim´s “door #3″ (Zope2 reabsorbing Zope3) as a more likely outcome.’ - Tres Seaver*

This is a good prediction of what will be - once it is

Until then some people will go on complaining on the current state of Zope, adding to the Zope2 vs. Zope3 FUD, demanding better docs, better feedback, better manners in mailing list discussion, even a Zope fork (guys, what a waste of time) — but, these people won’t even try to give back, write docs, answer other peoples questions in mailing lists, support the community, …

Looks like it has to get worse - before it gets better again.

Anyway, here are some news from the feeds:

Big news on Philipp von Weitershausen’s Zope3 book: 2nd edition expected next month!

Baiju Muthukadan starts the ‘Eggification of Zope Packages‘: ‘Many zope.* packages are already eggified before this proposal. There are some packages remaining. This proposal is to track eggification of packages under zope namespace which are distributed with Zope 3.’ (Zope 3 wiki)

Martijn Faassen writes about ‘Grok: or what I did on my holiday‘. Grok is a very recent project, aimed at using Zope3 without ZCML. So what does Grok-based Zope 3 code look like? See yourself…

Bad news from George Donnelly: Zettai Will Cease Operations Within 3-6 Months

Releases

• [z3-five] - Five release fest: Five 1.3.8, 1.4.2, 1.5.1 released

Useful Links

• Python Cheese Shop : wc.cookiecredentials 2.0 - This package contains a plug-in for Zope 3’s Pluggable Authentication Utility (PAU) that challenges and extracts user credentials based on browser cookies
• Python Cheese Shop : wc.worldcookeryskin 2.0 - Zope 3 skin for WorldCookery-like applications
• pylonshq.com: Pylons - ZODB middleware
• effbot.org: the E elementtree builder - a simple helper class for ElementTree, which lets you use a more convenient syntax to construct XML fragments
• Richard Jones: Roundup gets a WSGI interface - So now Roundup has a BaseHTTPServer interface (”roundup-server”), a regular CGI interface, a mod_python interface, a Zope interface and now a WSGI interface which, given support code, can do all but the Zope interface and then some
• pyworks.org: pyjamas 0.1 now available for download
• pythonpaste.org: WSGIRemote gives you a simple API for requests and responses that happens to know about potential opportunities for using WSGI to avoid HTTP while still respecting all your WSGI stack’s dispatching and middleware
• book announcement: REST Web Services - If all goes well, REST Web Services will be published by O’Reilly in May 2007. We want this to be the definitive work on the real-world use of REST.

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You might have noticed that I’ve omitted the last posting and combined 4 weeks into one issue. Its getting harder to find news atm, maybe you should start volunteering the newsletter now ? Check here on how to help… - d2m

Long-awaited zope.org redesign

Zope.org moves all zope-dev wikis to a new location/server at wiki.zope.org. Simon Michael of ZWiki fame dedicates quite a few hours to make that possible - thank you very much.

Zope 3 wiki moves there too and gets a great new layout thanks to Kevin Teague, based on the skin Tom Von Lahndorff created for the new Zope Foundation website. ZopeWiki.org is also available now from the new domain as wiki.zope.org/zope2.

Philipp von Weitershausen proposes to feature-freeze the Products.Five package and basically keep making it work (shrink it) for future Zope versions. Read the thread at [z3-five] RFC: The future of Products.Five.

Ian Bicking - working on OpenPlans (based on zope/plone) - looks into zope3 too. In his Zope 3 Critique he joins the latest developer discussion with some nice observations, like on zope3 adaption…

“If it quacks like a duck it’s probably a duck. Lots of uses of adaptation don’t quack; I don’t know what they all are, but they aren’t ducks.”

Worth reading anyway.

Releases

• Zope.org - Zope 3.2.2
• Zope.org - Zope 2.10.0
• Zope.org - Zope 2.9.5
• Python.org - Python 2.4.4
• Trac 0.10 - Integrated scm, wiki, issue tracker and project environment

Useful Links

• Python Cheese Shop: pushpage 0.3 - Tres Seaver: Push-mode ZPT pages
• Google Code: zope3demos - A small collection of demos using the new zope.viewlet package
• ETH: dLCMS - dynamic Learning Content Management System / Silva based dynamic Learning Content Management System
• Python Cheese Shop: roundup 1.2.0 - A simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. Highly customisable
• Google Code Search - Search public source code
• Google Groups: Google Labs - Code Search - a discussion forum for Google Code Search
• Paste 1.0 - This release includes all the major components: Paste (core), Paste Script, Paste Deploy, and Paste WebKit
• Python Cheese Shop: Oort 0.3 - A WSGI-enabled toolkit for creating RDF-driven web apps
• Python Cheese Shop: Easy Jabber XML-RPC 1.0
• do you remember netstrings ?

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I am sadly dropping the zope cookbook project. If anyone wants to continue the project I’ll be more than happy to provide all materials, website, etc.. - Tarek Ziadé

Things move fast these days - Nuxeo is switching their CPS platform from Python and Zope to the Java language, Martijn Faassen replies to Jean-Marc Orliaguet’s rant (you really want to read the comments too).

Meanwhile at Zope’s: Christian Theune announces milestones for Zope 3.3.1 and 3.4 …

Baiju Muthukadan manages a great Wiki on Zope3 related information (WhatIsNewInZope33).
Edit-this-Page: Zope3Faq and WhatIsZope3.

[Zope-dev] For the record: On the Future of ZClasses and In Defense of ZClasses.

Releases

• Zope.org - Zope 3.3.0
• Python Software Foundation News: Python 2.5 released

Useful Links

• Python Cheese Shop: BrowseFramework :: Zope2
• Python Cheese Shop: BrowseFramework :: Zope3
• Martijn Faassen: Distutils-SIG Info Page - we’ll be using the Python distutils SIG mailing list for discussions on buildout itself in the future.
• [Zope3-dev] Functional testing of XML-RPC views - Christian Theune adds functional testing of XML-RPC views in Zope 3
• Google TechTalk on WSGI, Middleware, Paste, and Pylons - still have to watch the video
• grabbing del.icio.us posts with python - cool effbot read for a warm fall sunday afternoon
• reST to HTML conversion - Jiri Barton’s small web application renders user’s input in reStructuredText into HTML. It is written in mod_python
• Universal Feed Parser - Nightly builds of the Universal Feed Parser
• boto - Python interface to Amazon Web Services
• Sergio Pereira: Using prototype.js v1.4.0
• Code Search - O’Reilly Labs - Search over 2.6 million lines of code from your favorite O’Reilly books

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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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‘One Zope, indivisible?‘ - Philipp von Weitershausen

Philipp von Weitershausen (z3lab.org: Jeff Shell on Zope 3 and how Zope 3 does ka-boom!) …
writes on exploding Zope3 into many eggs soon and converging towards one Zope app server (Zope 5) — a refreshing confirmation of the ideas brought up by Jim Fulton some 6 months ago.

He is also working on a second edition of Web Component Development with Zope 3 (worldcookery.com: You’ve heard it through the grapevine)

Releases

• Zope.org - CMF-1.6.2 is a pure bug fix/maintenance release without feature additions
• Nuxeo releases CPS 3.4.2

Useful Links

• Python Cheese Shop : calcore 2.1.0 - CalCore is an advanced, flexible calendaring component for Python. It allows the Python developer do write advanced calendaring applications either using their own event storage or integrating with external calendar servers.
• Wikimania 2006 - Video, audio, presentation slides, and transcript archives from Wikimania 2006
• RSS/Atom Feeds: Best Practices - S5-slides by John Panzer
• editmoin allows you to edit Moin pages with your preferred editor

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‘Third Bruce: Blimey, it’s hot in here, Bruce.‘ - Monty Python, 1969

Releases

• Zope 2.9.4 released

Useful Links

• Google Code: Project Hosting … new hosting service offers a collaborative development environment that includes: * Project workspaces with simple membership controls * Version control via Subversion * Issue tracking * Mailing lists at groups.google.com
• Python Cheese Shop: wsgize 0.1 - Utilities for “WSGIzing” Python callables
• Norman Walsh: Names and addresses - this essay helps to clarify that we already have all we need
• XML.com/Joe Gregorio: Implementing the Atom Publishing Protocol
• W3C - Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML & HTML Content
• rdf:about - up-to-date rdf basic information
• Jason Yip: It’s Not Just Standing Up: Patterns for Daily Stand-up Meetings - The daily stand-up meeting is simple to describe: the whole team meets every day for a quick status update. This short definition does not really tell you the subtle details that distinguish a good stand-up from a bad one.

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“The best way to predict the future… is to predict the future” - Arthur Siegel (PyGeo)

Christian Theune is trying to find out why nobody seems motivated to fix bugs ([Zope3-dev] The bug fixing problem) - ongoing discussion of debugging/testing methods.

Roché Compaan starts an interesting discussion on ZODB performance ([ZODB-Dev] What makes the ZODB slow?) - recommended reading.

Releases

• 2006-07-05 hotfix - Zope versions 2.7.0 - 2.7.8, 2.8.0 - 2.8.7, and 2.9.0 - 2.9.2 should have the 2006-07-05 hotfix installed to address a potential security issue
• Zope 2.8.8 - bugfix release due to security problems from zopes TTW usage of docutils (hotfixed issues already included)
• Zope 2.7.9 - bugfix release due to security problems from zopes TTW usage of docutils (hotfixed issues already included)

Sprints, Conference News & Press Announcements

[Zope3-dev] Security alert: use of Through-the-Web reStructuredText

Useful Links

• Europython 2006: timetable + slidelinks
• Guido van Rossum on Alan Kay’s EuroPython Keynote - Children First
• Functional Programming HOWTO - AMK: a tour of Python’s features suitable for implementing programs in a functional style
• PythonInfo Wiki: CheeseShopTutorial - Tutorial info on how to manage your packages with the cheeseshop
• docs.python.org: Distributing Python Modules - This document describes the Python Distribution Utilities (“Distutils'’) from the module developer’s point of view
• Python Cheese Shop: wsgiserialize 0.1 - Simple object serialization middleware for WSGI output. Object serialization formats include JSON, YaML, pickle, and cPickle.
• PyArticle - Essentially, PyArticle is pythonic, easy-to-use text convertor. It can take input text in various easy-to-write formats (Asciidoc, Czechtile, …) and produce various outputs (Xhtml, Html, PDF, ODF, …)
• Local Names is a way to bind names to URLs

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