On 4/20/09 3:35 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote:
Stephan Richter wrote:
On Sunday 19 April 2009, Tres Seaver wrote:
-1. As a branding choice (as opposed to a technology), Zope 3 *is* a
dead-end: it implies a strategy (replacing Zope 2) which we no longer
believe in. I think the consequences of
On 3/4/09 1:07 AM, Chris McDonough wrote:
Martin Aspeli wrote:
Chris McDonough wrote:
Sorry, the you above in you scolded was Martin Aspeli, not Faassen.
Note that the scolding had something to do with you breaking Plone
trunk due to a transitive change in Chameleon, and the realisation that
On 3/4/09 8:16 AM, Martin Aspeli wrote:
Paul Everitt wrote:
When I read Martin's post, I had a similar reaction. Namely, that the
convenience of the Uberthing (Plone in this case) will always trump the
desire of packages trying to survive on their own for new audiences. At
the time
On 3/4/09 9:47 AM, Roger Ineichen wrote:
Hi Paul
Betreff: Re: [Zope-dev] the Zope Framework project
On 3/4/09 8:16 AM, Martin Aspeli wrote:
[...]
Chameleon provided something that made it work for those
users, while allowing it to not be burdened by those needs.
Everybody wins.
On 3/2/09 10:13 PM, Martin Aspeli wrote:
We recognised that there was a problem in trying to make sure we
represented the interests of various stakeholders, and that we needed
someone to think big picture in terms of what technologies we adopted
and how we used them.
Just to be clear, I
On 3/2/09 6:36 PM, Martijn Faassen wrote:
Hi there,
To people who are suggesting we don't need a steering group nor a name
for the Zope Framework, please answer the following questions:
* how will the community make hard decisions where lots of people
disagree? What is the mechanism for
On 3/3/09 9:37 AM, Kent Tenney wrote:
I'll chime in as a newbie.
It seems many of the comments preferring ad-hoc to structure
come from we know what we are doing, we can take care of ourselves
I think Zope has the goal of attracting new users, and the proposal
has potential to make Zope
On 3/3/09 2:42 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:
Martijn Faassen wrote:
And you think it's all due to the brand...
Yes! Someone who *wants* to use basic ZCML directives but doesn't want
zope.security, zope.location, zope.publisher, zope.traversing, zope.i18n, and
pytz can *already* use
Martijn Faassen wrote:
Hi there,
Joachim Schmitz, long-standing member of the Zope community, died last
weekend. Please see the following:
http://faassen.n--tree.net/blog/view/weblog/2008/05/14/0
That was a wonderfully written memoriam, Martijn, thanks for writing it.
A number of things
Stefane Fermigier wrote:
Geoff Davis wrote:
I think that the idea of giving Zed its own, distinct identity is great..
I think it is stupid.
We (Zope Corp + the Zope Community) have spent 8 years building the Zope
brand, and you want to restart from scratch ?
Hehe, poor Geoff. :)
In the
Geoff Davis wrote:
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:38:03 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote:
I think that the idea of giving Zed its own, distinct identity is great.
Zope 3 is a _huge_ overhaul and it needs to be obvious to the world that
it is dramatically better than crufty old Zope 2. Zope 3 then becomes the
Chris has opinions on performance based on his experiences. Others have
different viewpoints. Here is an more empirical treatment of what you
might expect:
http://www.ifpeople.net/resources/downloads/PlonePerformance.pdf
--Paul
michael nt milne wrote:
Hi
I am setting up sites using
On Jun 17, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote:
However, most members do not write code during their free time, do
they?
What happens when the members write code under working hours, their
respective employers must well have something to say about it?
The PF actually did research
On Jun 17, 2005, at 1:52 PM, Stephan Richter wrote:
On Friday 17 June 2005 07:16, Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote:
Then when I look at the members of the Plone foundation (
http://plone.org/foundation/about/board/list ) I only see companies,
except that ZC is not represented. So even if every
On Jun 17, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Stefane Fermigier wrote:
Paul Everitt wrote:
Other foundations approach things a bit differently. (I did quite
a bit of research on this for the Plone Foundation.)
Eric has done some research recently on the different successful
Open Source / Free
Julien Anguenot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) will lead a team working on the the
ECM workflow architecture and continue the existing prototype.
Discussion about the WfMC standard and the 3 architecture layers
(xpdcore/wfmc/ecmworkflow) plus the existing work on the Zope 3
trunk is planned.
o Paul
This is really interesting! A year ago I put Python + Zope on a USB
key, just for fun. It would barely fit so I looked at zip techniques,
and never could figure out how to get ZPTs etc. to load from a ZIP.
How did you do that part?
--Paul
Dieter Maurer wrote:
Dear Zope developers,
we have
Are you doing this as a XUL app, with an html/xul iframe inside each tab?
--Paul
Jeff Nielsen wrote:
Sorry in advance if this issue has been covered a bzillion times already
Im playing with editing my Zope site using Firefox as I can open
Document and Method objects in tabbed windows and
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:15:58 +0100, Seb Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joachim Werner wrote:
There are quite a few Zope-based CMS solutions out there, and most of
them are better than their commercial counterparts in many respects.
But if we had managed to start a joint CMS effort (other than
Good grief, how did I miss this!!
Shane Hathaway wrote:
I just read the RDF article published here:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/02/12/rdflib.html
Yes indeed, that is a very good article.
I've understood the mechanics of RDF for a while, but never understood
what makes it better than
On Friday, Feb 21, 2003, at 04:16 Europe/Paris, Craeg K Strong wrote:
Paul Everitt wrote:
On jeudi, fév 20, 2003, at 22:15 Europe/Paris, Shane Hathaway wrote:
- RDF is hard to read, but legibility by humans isn't its primary
focus. It's more concerned with providing a way to declare any
On Thursday, Oct 3, 2002, at 03:54 Europe/Paris, James Johnson wrote:
I've been around the Zope/Python scene for many years. One thing I
see this group suffer I believe if from the groupthink mentality.
Imho Alexander Limi 2 cents worth demonstrated Erik's point
perfectly. applaud
On Thursday, Oct 3, 2002, at 07:14 Europe/Paris, Andy McKay wrote:
I smell commecial interest here. I smell people trying to make
that
one
killer project hoping to make it big, instead of centering around the
one
vehicle that will help make a bunch of projects big someday.
I won't
On Thursday, Oct 3, 2002, at 10:51 Europe/Paris, James Johnson wrote:
Please don't get me wrong, products like squishdot, CMFZen, and
others have steered me towards Zope. They are fine examples of the
things that make Zope appealing. But if you really think about what
I'm saying you
it is quite
useful.)
We hope to have two groups of sprinters, with 6 or 8 people in each
group. This means 3 or 4 pairs.
If you are interested in sprinting and want to participate in the
ongoing development of Zope 3, please email me (Paul Everitt,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) to sign up.
More (and updated
ForkedStorage, I like it simply for the coolness of the name. :^)
But it sparked a different kind of idea, leveraging a pattern that might
emerge in Zope 3.
Let's say we had a queue in Zope. We could asynchronously send changes
into the queue. Later, based on some policy (e.g. idle time,
I think this conversation is trending in the wrong direction.
Zope 3 needs to make it possible to build YABB, interfaces which support
all browsers while still looking slick, etc.
However, it is important to note: Zope 3 is *not* a product. It is used
to build products. The core ZMI is
I don't think we can do the geographic coverage without making it too
painful. We should split bug days in half; a few hours in the morning
and a few hours in the afternoon.
--Paul
Brian Lloyd wrote:
Hi all -
In an effort to better keep up with the collector, I'd like
to throw out the
Take a look at:
http://www.zope.org/Members/haqa/XMLKit/news-1.1.1
Adrian made an interface to ODBC Socket Server.
--Paul
Peeyush Garg wrote:
Hi,
What's the current best solution to utilize the combination of Zope on
Linux and Database as MS-SQL Server running on WinNT. I don't
Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote:
I'm really disappointed with ZC for putting out a new release of Zope
instead of a fixed version of the release most everyone is currently
using.
2.4.4 is ready, but there's a problem with the Windows build. I suppose
we could just put the others up there
Whew, at long last, I've posted a Sprint Schedule at:
http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/SprintSchedule
Boy, that URL is too long. I edited the dev.zope.org homepage to add
links to the Zope3 page and the sprint schedule. This page also answers
the question,
Howdy. This is a last-second email aimed at Washington-area Zope
developers that might want to do a Zope3 extreme programming sprint with
Jim next week, here in Fredericksburg. The dates are any two of Dec
26/27/28. Good knowledge of Python and Zope development required.
Please reply to
I've taken a while to respond on this, because I wanted to talk it over
with folks here, to think about the specifics of what different ideas
would mean, etc.
In summary, your last paragraph says: So let's trade in some risks to
the Zope core development (rash action and messed up stuff
Lennart Regebro wrote:
Well, all the i18n developers will have a meeting early January in
Europe with Jim Fulton in a 2-day brainstorming session.
Excellent! When and where?
Yeh, cat's almost out of the bag on this one. Here's the plan. Note
that all of this is tentative!
As you may
Matt Behrens wrote:
Shane Hathaway wrote:
Again, this is all quite exciting and I hope you can join the action.
I hope to. Who's in charge of packaging and installation? I see an
opportunity to do it right this time, I hope I'm not too late to the party.
I think this is an excellent
Clearly this is a situation that has broken down. I'll suggest a
resolution in a private note to you in a sec.
--Paul
Toby Dickenson wrote:
On Sat, 1 Dec 2001 08:50:14 -0500, Andreas Jung
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also I had expect some input of the community regarding at unicode
Joachim Werner wrote:
I think that there ARE problems that can not be solved on a mailing list or
in the fishbowl. One of them is doing a good general design (which we MIGHT
need for some of the Zope 3.0 issues). I followed all the stuff about the
CMF and formerly PTK and knew that it was
If, as Paul assures, the second point is about to be rectified it might be
now the time to do a second such compilation and then start doing it.
Robert
- Original Message -
From: Andreas Jung [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Joachim Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Paul Everitt [EMAIL PROTECTED
Agreed completely on both of those points. There's double good news on
both:
1) Someone plans to do something about it.
2) Both are with community involvement.
On documentation, someone in the community has committed to taking over
the Documentation page on zope.org and finally organizing
Chris Withers wrote:
Paul Everitt wrote:
Moral: there's a difference between correct and right. While we might
have good reasons for inattention, it will surely lead to an
unsatisfying conclusion. Thus, ZC needs to be smaller part of a larger
Zope, IMO, and do this by spending more time
Casey Duncan wrote:
I propose (as I just did on zope-web) that ZC do one more little thing for
us. Open the web infrastructure up to a few of us. I would be willing to
spend a few nights hashing out a more active fishbowl system if that's
what's important. Lets take that first step
Chris McDonough wrote:
Those who know of these problems can write clean applications but
these
issues are kept strictly
confidential.
Isn't this dangerously close to a conspiracy theory?
Yes, he's right -- we hid the information on this top-secret thing
called the World Wide Web:
Magnus Heino wrote:
Well, that checkin was done to the cvs 4 days ago. If you haven't
read the one line at dev.zope.org about it being available in the
cvs, or if you dont subscribe to the cvs mailinglist, how are you
supposed to know that it exists? :-P
Actually, he sent an email to
Magnus Heino wrote:
This is just a guess, but I suspect that this is a sort of unfortunate
cycle developing: people post proposals, get (understandably) dismayed
at the response time and end up not spending much time there, either
contributing or providing feedback.
Well, lets move this
Brian Lloyd wrote:
[snip]
When we first opened the fishbowl, it was with the certainty that we
wouldn't get it right immediately. That's why we went with the
intentially low-tech approach of a pile of Wikis. That first step
actually worked pretty well for a while until we hit
Chris was just drinking a beer with us at Orbit's twenty minutes ago,
and now he's responding to email on a Friday night. That's just sick.
I don't think your boss fully appreciates you, number 27. :^)
--Paul
Chris McDonough wrote:
The session management framework (formerly known as
Yikes, it was pointed out to me that I typed amk instead of akm.
Though I knew it was Andrew Milton and not Andrew Kuchling, I mixed up
the letters. (In fact, as I was typing it, I was thinking wow, that
looks like Andrew Kuchling's monogram.)
--Paul
Paul Everitt wrote:
Whew
We misfired on an Apache configuration and the Apache's weren't
listening. It should be back.
--Paul
Chris Withers wrote:
Brian Lloyd wrote:
Hi all -
We've started a new fishbowl project to address version control
in Zope:
An important aspect to consider: in some cases, you simply need the ZEO
storage server to have large file support. Thus, if you can get the ZSS
running under Python 2.2, then you're set. This is considerably less
ambitious than getting all of Zope (e.g. the catalog) migrated to a new
bit and see what's involved.
--Paul
Andy McKay wrote:
So did we at least get a fishbowl out of it?
Cheers.
--
Andy McKay.
- Original Message -
From: Paul Everitt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Phillip J. Eby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday
Martijn Faassen wrote:
I'm not entirely sure why the idea of ZTables went away so completely.
Python tables in the ZODB combined with the catalog should make for an
interesting system to play with. Though perhaps there are products
out there that actually do this. Come to think of it,
Whew, what a proposal and what a good sign!
As several have noted, there are quite a few proposals in the fishbowl
that deal with different aspects of the problems. There's also a draft
proposal that we had here in ZC that expands on the items. Finally,
there appear to be a few pieces of
Dieter Maurer wrote:
Paul Everitt writes:
http://dev.zope.org/CVS/Contributor.pdf
The Committer Agreement does not seem to be even handed:
The committer transfers rights immediately and indefinitely
to Zope Corporation (the contributions become a gift to
Zope Corporation
First, just a friendly reminder that there is a zodb-dev mailing list.
On this, check out Andrew Kuchling's page about ZEO development:
http://www.amk.ca/zodb/zodb-zeo.html
There's a section at the bottom with a brief discussion of
ConflictError, what it means, and how to handle it. Zope
Martijn Faassen wrote:
http://dev.zope.org/CVS/Contributor.pdf
This says 'you must indicate your agreement to the term below'; shouldn't
it be 'terms'?
Uhh...well...yes! I'll make the change. I'm waiting for news back from
the lawyer about provisions for handling patches. I'll then
I'd like to add some misinformation...errmm, comments. :^) On the
version control side, you're quite right, we're still behind on it.
There _are_ some ways to get there, if you try hard enough. But that's
unacceptible.
There are two things long term that need to be done: filesystem
. Please respond
agreeing that you understand the ZPL, the joint ownership model, and
allow this contribution under these terms.
How does that sound?
--Paul
R. David Murray wrote:
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Paul Everitt wrote:
So, let's begin what I'm sure will be a lively and illuminating
discussion
Do others consider this a vulnerability? While it reveals more
information than people might want, I'm curious about scenarios under
which it could be exploited.
If any of you know of something *specific*, meaning it's a genuinely
exploitable vulnerability, please email me or Brian Lloyd
I just took a look at ODBC Socket Server, which I had never seen before.
Pretty interesting! Here's some comments.
1) It looks like socket server opens a new socket for processing every
request. In this respect, it goes against one of the benefits of
database adapters, which keep a
), we might want to revisit it.
Either way, I'll get an answer for you, thanks!
--Paul
Morten W. Petersen wrote:
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Paul Everitt wrote:
So, let's begin what I'm sure will be a lively and illuminating
discussion. :^)
First man out? :-)
Will a ZPL-ish license [1
I'll reply in more depth later (on the way out for my b-day dinner), but
in short: I think the issue of overhead on patches is something for us
to consider. We won't do something that breaks the integrity of the
code base, but there might be ample discussion directions. Thanks!
--Paul
With great trepidation, I add a post to this thread. As Barry has
mentioned, this has all been discussed a LOT. I'll try to summarize and
clarify a few points:
1) I wanted to specifically address something in Michael's post here.
We fully expect people to profit from Zope, even if that
people that we're intending to give it a shot.
--Paul
Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
hi,
i wanted to draw myself from this thread before annoying the whole list,
so i'll take paul mail as an excuse to write some final comments.
On 27 Jun 2001 09:06:16 -0400, Paul Everitt wrote:
1) I wanted
Hmm, I'm surprised that 2 days has passed with no comment from zope-dev
and no comments in the Wiki. I hear constant complaints about lack of a
polished API. I expected this post to generate lots of interest.
What say ye, zope-dev? Is this something we should be doing, or would
you prefer a
As one more example, Zope.org is currently at 4.8 Gb on FileStorage.
--Paul
R. David Murray wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My impression is that FileStorage implements a 32-bit id-type-thingy
somewhere (look at ZODB docs, I think there is something about this
Lalo Martins wrote:
By hoping that EC will go away soon, I assume they mean the
PythonLabs folks are working on fixing this for once in Python
itself. Right?
That is correct. The point is, ExtensionClass machinery will go away
but the functionality would remain, if Python changes in the
Howdy folks, it's that time of year again. The Python Conference:
http://www.python9.org/
...is Mar 5-8 in Long Beach, CA, and we're having a Zope Track again this
year. Last year's conference proved to be a watershed event, with the
attendance rising dramatically, the launching point for
Some quick points on this.
First, feel free to talk on this list about ways that Zope
developers can license their stuff. It's a constructive
discussion, and since I'm not a Zope developer, I can ignore
it. :^)
Second, regarding the licensing of Zope itself, ChrisP is
right that I'm the guy
Hello Zope friends. At long last we at Digital Creations are able to
publicly say it: we've closed a $12M round of investment:
http://www.digicool.com/News/CRound.html
It's out on the newswire now. We'll start pushing it out more over the next
24 hours.
This, needless to say, is a big
://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
--
--Paul
Paul Everitt Digital Creations
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 540.371.6909
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The Open Source Zope application server
http://www.zope.org
Yes, it's been hard keeping that particular secret. :^)
We'll have more to say on this -- like an official press release -- over
the coming week.
--Paul
Ross Lazarus wrote:
Now here's something readers of this list might be interested in ...
Original Message
Subject:
Andy McKay wrote:
What problem are you trying to solve -- response time, memory usage,
disk usage?
All of the above :)
Describe some of the symptoms back on the list and let's talk about it
there. For instance, you can trade RAM for performance by adjusting
knobs on the catalog.
--Paul
Hello friends. We at Digital Creations have been pretty low-key about
promoting job announcements. I'll break the tradition, but only to
promote someone else's job position. The reason I'm getting involved is
the project is a Big Deal for Zope and the folks involved are great
people. For
I'm surprised that no one responded to this. (Or maybe people did and
our continual email server problems have lost it.)
I'd like to congratulate Hiperlogica, because they have (ding ding ding)
the _right answer_! :^)
Seriously, we at Digital Creations have been quietly formulating a
proposal
Howdy folks. As advertised in my last email, below is our Fishbowl
Proposal on a new template architecture. Some notes:
1) This mostly replaces DTML. As mentioned, the goal isn't necessarily
to get DTML removed from Zope. Rather, most of the audience will see it
little or none of the time.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IMHO, view, page, and stylesheet don't make the grade due to
conflicts/confusion with unrelated technologies (e.g. MVC, "server pages",
CSS, etc.).
On the other hand, reading the "What is styles?" material at:
http://www.w3.org/Style/
...makes me think that the
Hello sports fans. Last week we released a beta of OracleStorage.
There was a pretty strong drumbeat in Zopeland for us to go ahead and
get this out. We spent some extra time on the installation process and
instructions to make sure it was straightforward to use.
We at DC would like to get
First, note that I can only talk on the record about things that are
here now and that I have the OK to talk about. There have been a number
of big things we've done over the last year, like our work with HomeGain
that you allude to below. It's important for me to work closely with
them to get
As far as I'm concerned, Zope was born Saturday, June 8, 1996. This was
Jim Fulton's plane trip back from IPC4:
http://www.python.org/workshops/1996-06/
Beyond that, Zope (as a unification of previous software) was announced
in November 1998 and released in December 1998.
DC had some prior
"Dario Lopez-Kästen" wrote:
Hello!
Hello Dario!
I need to find more info on how Zope handles threading with relation to
database connections.
How about:
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Developer/Models/ZODB
The jargon of threads and connections (and then threads again) can be
pretty
setup the booth Tuesday evening. There is a Zope
Perl BOF Tuesday evening. Brian Lloyd arrives Tuesday evening, as does
Amos Lattier I believe.
Wednesday is a big day. I am in a lunchtime press event called "Open
Source Comes of Age" hosted by Tim O'Reilly with:
Andy Hertzfeld, E
There was tremendous discussion on the mailing list around the time of
the introduction of the new syntax. As Jim made clear, the goals of the
new syntax did _not_ include XML compliance. Instead, the goals were:
a. Get rid of the old syntax. The SSI style was universally ridiculed
and
ZEO 0.2, an alpha version of ZEO, is now publicly
available from the "ZEO page", http://www.zope.org/Products/ZEO/.
ZEO is the clustering code for Zope. This version does *not* contain
the multiplexing code that was holding up the release. Be sure to check
the page for performance numbers
Bill Anderson wrote:
OK, after reveiwing the ZEO FAQ, I realized that we seem to be a few
weeks behind schedule. Is there any updates on a time frame? I know this
would certainly help amk out with his project, and would certainly help
me out, even in non-zope apps (I am working on moving a
Martijn Faassen wrote:
The addition of the Perl stuff will be bad if the Zope source will be
hacked up in various places in order to support this. I can be _good_ if
this means a focus on providing clean interfaces first, and a more
componentized architecture. I.e. there's a focus on
Chris Withers wrote:
Paul Everitt wrote:
You're absolutely right on this. Amos' post recently described the
various things in various stages of release that should give some hope
for the situation. These things really are an improvement. I'm
crossing my fingers that this turns
built upon it?
This somewhat could be answered by the modularization of Zope and it's
companion packages.
Just a couple of questions to hopefully clarify things.
Jimmie Houchin
Paul Everitt wrote:
Bill wrote:
[snip stuff about Perl's OO model]
It's funny that you bring this up. One of the really i
Graham Chiu wrote:
Hmm. zope.org has been down most of the afternoon.
Not that Friday afternoon change over to Zeo that they were talking
about doing ?
Nope, a very odd DNS situation.
--Paul
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David was going to check to see if the embedded Python could import C
extensions. If it could, I know of a little object publishing
environment that could run in Mozilla. :^)
--Paul
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From: Martijn Pieters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000
Howdy folks. As mentioned previously, a gem is ready to appear in CVS:
mountable databases.
What are these? I'll answer with a question. Ever want to have your
data segregated into multiple Data.fs files? Ever want to have some of
your object data in the regular FileStorage, some in a
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