Re: [ZWeb] zope web status report 2006-02-06

2006-02-09 Thread Chris Withers
Tonico Strasser wrote: IMHO, the most important change for reducing visual design complexity, is to get rid of the /Members section, including log in/log out, and the whole TTW content management system. I think it's much easier to add and update content with SVN. (This would also

Re: [ZWeb] Zope 3 Website

2006-03-09 Thread Chris Withers
Lennart Regebro wrote: Of course not, you are a total thinker, and not affected positively about people bragging. But most other people are. It's all about hype. I'll take that as a compliment ;-) Do we really want people that are attracted? How are they going to benefit our community?

Re: [ZWeb] Version 3

2006-03-20 Thread Chris Withers
Andrew Sawyers wrote: Maybe we don't have login on these pages; maybe use a different url for 'managing' the site: manager.zope.org or something which adds in an additional skin which includes these macros. Just an idea. How would normal users go about submitting news and product releases?

Re: [ZWeb] V3 Updated

2006-03-23 Thread Chris Withers
Tom Von Lahndorff wrote: http://www.modscape.com/zope 03/22/06. Updated the homepage. Added the Zope 3 box. Created a download page. Click on Download Zope under Download in the nav. I don't like the big digits for 2 and 3, makes those images look really garish. On the download page,

Re: [ZWeb] V3 Updated

2006-03-24 Thread Chris Withers
Tom Von Lahndorff wrote: On the download page, Zope 2 should be above Zope 3. Really? I thought most people want to push Zope 3. Shouldn't the latest release be listed first? I really don't care on way or the other, just curious. Zope 2 is the more stable, tested release. I don't care

Re: [ZWeb] V3 Updated

2006-03-25 Thread Chris Withers
Tom Von Lahndorff wrote: http://www.modscape.com/zope/v3/products_html Added a products page. Linked from the nav. Damn. This really is very good. Would there be any problem with just replacing the main_template and Products page on Zope.rog with this design? cheers, Chris -- Simplistix

Re: [ZWeb] V3 Updated

2006-03-27 Thread Chris Withers
Tom Von Lahndorff wrote: Its not. Its a lot easier to find answers to my questions though at the Apple's support discussion boards, when I have an Apple issue, rather than searching Google because I'm searching through very specific content, not the web in general and therefore get more

Re: [ZWeb] V3 Updated

2006-03-27 Thread Chris Withers
Tom Von Lahndorff wrote: Damn. This really is very good. Would there be any problem with just replacing the main_template and Products page on Zope.rog with this design? I already proposed to setup his design as an alternative skin in zope.org for *testing* with the current content to

[ZWeb] Bizarre behaviour with zope.org just now

2006-04-03 Thread Chris Withers
Hi All, Just been bounced to zope.com from zope.org a few times. philiKON was experiencing the same thing... Any reason why that would happen? Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

[ZWeb] Re: [Zopeorg-webmaster] Zope.org redirects to Zope.com

2006-04-03 Thread Chris Withers
Hi Carlos, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having troubles accessing to zope.org, since it redirects to zope.com. So, I'm not able to download Zope. We're aware of the problem and people are looking into it. cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting

Re: [ZWeb] newbie

2006-06-12 Thread Chris Withers
Hi Chuzo, Firstly, you really need to join the zope@zope.org list, this list has a different purpose ;-) Chuzo Okuda wrote: First, I wanted to learn Zope Tutorial, but I do not understand where I can locate Select type to add... list in the following steps to follow as I cannot find where is

Re: [ZWeb] asp404 help

2006-07-10 Thread Chris Withers
shahrzad khorrami wrote: I read almost all the archives about ASP404 but I can't find something useful to me to lead me to my goal *!* This is the wrong list, you want [EMAIL PROTECTED] and also there is no perfect article about using IIS as a web server in plone site ...well, you're

[ZWeb] Re: volunteers wanted! zope foundation website as guinea pig

2006-08-23 Thread Chris Withers
Martijn Faassen wrote: I propose we use Tom Von Lahndorff's design for the foundation website. For the purposes of the foundation site we should strip it down: +lots * possibly no drop-down menus at the top. We could simply have links there, or possibly a standard left-hand side navigation.

Re: [ZWeb] volunteers wanted! zope foundation website as guinea pig

2006-08-23 Thread Chris Withers
Martijn Faassen wrote: I agree we have less than before, sorry. Then again, before we had two foundation websites with diverging information, and now we have one, so that's progress. :) +1 Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting -

Re: [ZWeb] Re: website design discussion

2006-08-28 Thread Chris Withers
Tom Von Lahndorff wrote: http://modscape.com/zope New Foundation page. Try the nav. Only tested on Firefox/Mac so far. Personally, I hate sites that leave whacking great margins either ide of the actual content. Not sure about the colours or shadows either. And the left nav doesn't feel

Re: [ZWeb] Re: website design discussion

2006-08-28 Thread Chris Withers
Tom Von Lahndorff wrote: Here we go again. Step 1. Propose a project to the Zope community. Step 2. Plone sucks / Plone is great battle begins, everyone complains about what they dont like. Step 3. No actual work ever gets done. Step 4. Repeat in 6 months. Er, Tom, you asked for

Re: [ZWeb] Re: website design discussion

2006-08-29 Thread Chris Withers
Tom Von Lahndorff wrote: Im trying to avoid things like: - I dont like that color. (Unless its really nasty this is 100% subjective) - Fixed width vs. Fluid layouts. (This debate has been around since tables. We need to just pick one. For every person that doesnt like the space on the side of

[ZWeb] zope.org

2006-08-29 Thread Chris Withers
Gaute Amundsen wrote: Actually, I am starting to think there should be a big notice on the frontpage of the http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ section saying: don't bother with this, just read the source There's actually some merit to this, anyone mind if I implement? 0.5 wink Chris --

Re: [ZWeb] Re: the maintenance of change logs

2006-09-25 Thread Chris Withers
Jim Fulton wrote: the machine that goes by many names, including svn.zope.org, cvs.zope.org, and mail.zope.org. I think I'm right in saying that this poor box does have apache on it and so might not be such a bad place to stick the foundation stuff if it is just flat files? cheers,

Re: Zope.org DNS ( was Re: [ZWeb] http://namespaces.zope.org/zope )

2006-09-27 Thread Chris Withers
Andrew Sawyers wrote: You didn't cc tres Yeah, I know, but since Jens shouted at me shortly afterwards, I didn't think I'd rectify the situation ;-) Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

Re: [ZWeb] http://namespaces.zope.org/zope

2006-09-27 Thread Chris Withers
Justizin wrote: Perhaps I am making a wild and sweeping assumption here, but I think that Chris is talking about the DNS servers which are controlled by software the team I worked on at Rackspace was responsible for, and look like ns.rackspace.com. ;) Yep, so you're responsible for that crappy

[ZWeb] [Fwd: [Zope] http://svn.zope.org and http://cvs.zope.org]

2006-10-12 Thread Chris Withers
Looks like DNS is still fubar'ed here in europe... I get the same experience as this user... C:\nslookup svn.zope.org Non-authoritative answer: Name:svn.zope.org Address: 63.240.213.171 cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting -

Re: [ZWeb] DNS still fishy?

2006-10-12 Thread Chris Withers
Justizin wrote: I'd love to see more backups once they have copies of the zone. Why? zope.org has happily lived off two nameservers for years and years... All of a sudden, we need to have more backups, the upshot of which has been people in europe getting served bad dns from ns.qutang.net

Re: [ZWeb] DNS still fishy?

2006-10-12 Thread Chris Withers
Jens Vagelpohl wrote: It makes sense to have name servers in different physical locations and on different networks in case one provider runs into trouble. The point of contention is the number of slaves. Right, which brings me back to my other point: why, when 2 server have been fine for

[ZWeb] Re: [Zope-dev] svn.zope.org down?

2006-10-12 Thread Chris Withers
There still appear to be some outstanding dns issues... Chris Wichert Akkerman wrote: Is something happening with svn.zope.org? I haven't been able to use anonymous or authorized svn for two days. Wichert. -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting -

[ZWeb] *poke*

2006-10-12 Thread Chris Withers
is this list alive? Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk ___ Zope-web maillist - Zope-web@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-web

[ZWeb] zope.org dns

2006-10-13 Thread Chris Withers
Hi All, Summary of current status on DNS... I've just updated the zonedit contact details to point to: http://groups.google.com/group/zopeorg-dns This is a private, members only group and I've invited all relevant people to the group. If I've left anyone out, please let me know. If you've

Re: [ZWeb] Apache config for lists.zope.org/mail.zope.org fubar?

2006-10-13 Thread Chris Withers
yep :-) Chris Lennart Regebro wrote: Does this have anything with the sudden onsplurt of spam via Zope mailing lists? ___ Zope-web maillist - Zope-web@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-web -- Simplistix - Content Management,

Re: [ZWeb] Apache config for lists.zope.org/mail.zope.org fubar?

2006-10-13 Thread Chris Withers
Lennart Regebro wrote: On 10/13/06, Chris Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yep :-) Extra annoyiong since I have been trying to unsubscribe from the zope-list for a week. And failing. I don't have time to read that list just now... procmail's great, works for me on michael milne ;-) (and I

Re: [ZWeb] statistical nonsense

2006-10-13 Thread Chris Withers
Justizin wrote: I hope you all curl up and die. I'm going to use TurboGears, since apparently noone in the Zope community will fucking talk to me anymore. I'm sure you will be sorely missed ;-) Seriously, you seemed like a well meaning, fairly clued up, if slightly arrogant guy when you

Re: [ZWeb] statistical nonsense

2006-10-13 Thread Chris Withers
Justizin wrote: Heck, at my age, I could just go join a fucking band instead of spending most of my time volunteering to work with open-source software on behalf of non-profit foundations. http://www.bash.org/?14207 ;-) Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting

Re: [ZWeb] zope.org dns

2006-10-13 Thread Chris Withers
Jim Fulton wrote: Chris Withers wrote: ... I'm tempted to email this zoneedit username and password to the google group so that it's not locked away in several people's mail accounts. How do people feel about this? It makes me feel uncomfortable. :) No worries, that's fine, I think enough

Re: [ZWeb] wiki skin

2006-10-30 Thread Chris Withers
Simon Michael wrote: Chris Withers wrote: Is it going to move to the great new style that's been used for the Zope 3 wiki? I took some time to get used to the new skin. I like it a lot - great work Kevin (and Tom). Yes indeed :-) I have been guessing the consensus will be to use the new

Re: [ZWeb] Fwd: [ZF] foundation site confusion

2006-11-13 Thread Chris Withers
Rob Page wrote: Chris - did zoneedit get the zopefoundation info? I don't think it's answering. They did, but zoneedit have this bizarre policy of refusing to serve dns until the whois record points at their nameservers. Worse still, even after the whois records have changed, they'll only

Re: [ZWeb] wiki.zope.org MX record request

2006-12-20 Thread Chris Withers
Simon Michael wrote: Could I have the wiki.zope.org MX record pointed to mail.joyful.com ? This will allow me to email things to the wikis again. Done. Lemme know if you have any problems. cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting -

Re: [ZWeb] wiki.zope.org is still unreachable

2007-05-10 Thread Chris Withers
Andrew Sawyers wrote: The last word I got was last night, there was a power supply failure at Amaze's data center. I would presume this would be a power supply failure in the server which hosts these sites. No further word. I personally don't have contact with Amaze, not any idea how to

[ZWeb] Re: [Zope] Zope lists in google

2008-02-07 Thread Chris Withers
Josef Meile wrote: Today I noticed that google doesn't find anything when giving site:mail.zope.org anymore. It worked before :-( Yeah, I noticed this too. It's a real shame. I wonder who did that and why? (file objects have no history tab and the database has been packed to the point where

Re: [ZWeb] Re: [Zope] Zope lists in google

2008-02-08 Thread Chris Withers
Sascha Welter wrote: I can't think that mail.zope.org has anything to do with a ZODB or is configured from zope.org (Removed the cross posting, dunno what this has to do with zope@) Because the person originally asking the question posted there... (I'm now CC'ing him in directly...)

Re: AW: [ZWeb] Re: [Zope] Zope lists in google

2008-02-11 Thread Chris Withers
Josef Meile wrote: Somebody didn't like the bots to roam the archives? I have a feeling someone didn't want bots spanking some web-subversion front end that's running, but the end result is that we loose all Zope code and mailing list archives from Google :-( Yes, that's really sad. I really

Re: AW: [ZWeb] Re: [Zope] Zope lists in google

2008-02-11 Thread Chris Withers
Jens Vagelpohl wrote: Since it was the weekend and no one at ZC can be expected to sit around just waiting for someone from the ZWeb list to complain it took a few days. The robots.txt file is now empty. Yay, good stuff :-) cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python

Re: [ZWeb] weird cache behaviour?

2008-07-21 Thread Chris Withers
Jens Vagelpohl wrote: It is still weird and it will probably remain that way. The caching tier is independent and not under our control. How long is it going to be before we can move zope.org to some kind of sane hosting environment? cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management,

[ZWeb] www.zope.org down?

2009-04-03 Thread Chris Withers
Hey All, Is it supposed to be down? Chris PS: I'm not longer subscribed to zope-web, please CC me in a replies... -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk ___ Zope-web maillist -