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On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Leonardo Rochael Almeida <leoroch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Zope4 Lille Sprint 2012 Report > > The first thing we did was discuss the state of contributions to the > Zope codebase, specially in light of many vocal members of the > community that would like to use GitHub (and other members, less > numerous but equally vocal, who would not like to use GitHub at all, > but still want to use Git). > > Jens started investigating the options and will report to the Foundation > board. > > Then we started reviewing the current state of various existing > branches that try to advance the state of Zope trunk. Laurence rebased > some previously existing "parent pointers" work onto the current Zope > trunk, and Leonardo worked on restoring a minimal "Welcome" page on a > just installed Zope instance that would not involve adding more > persistent objects. > > We then took stock of what work is already done or is sufficiently > advanced that we could reasonably expect to be ready soon: > > - WSGI as the only publisher, moving transaction handling back into > it (i.e. a pure Zope4 wsgi app without any other middleware should be > "complete"). This will likely be folded back into Zope 2.13. > > - Parent pointers - need to specify a minimum migration strategy, > which should not require modifying all objects in your instance > (mostly for objects looked up by C.A.: local site manager, > utilities...) > > - Lots of stuff removed already > > - Decide on egg name (Zope2 currently, ideally it should be Zope) > > - ZMI tidy up (not removal, for this release). > > - WebOb based request > > - Remove Session and TemporaryFolder. > > Nice to have (i.e. if we have manpower to develop): > > - Use Chameleon and drop old ZPT implementation, but only if Plone > has shipped with it by then (to be sure incompatibilities are fixed.) > > - Don't use docstrings to control publishing. > > > The expectation is to be able to release a Zope4 alpha by the end of the year. > > Next sprint will be at the Plone Conference in Arnhem, focussing on > WSGI and merging branches. > _______________________________________________ > Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org > https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )