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Plone4artists

First Rocky about plone4artists. They’ve
actually been tracking progress
on openplans.org. A group has been working on a formlib widget for
uploading files. There was an existing widget, but that didn’t cut
it. Nice: Jonathan has made a new screencast that’ll be put online
later in the day. I saw it and it shows off the capabilities pretty
well. Of course a lot of bugfixing.

I asked: at least 8 or 9 people are working on plone4artists. They’ve
got more functional tests (all testbrowser tests). Folders now show an
mp3 track listing for the mp3 files inside it. For the rest,
they’ve looked at quite a number of things, but haven’t really delved
into it. Well, Rocky is very pleased about the progress. A beta for
the audio part seems possible, but an alpha for the video part is
doubtful, as everyone has been focusing on the audio part.

This sprint will make Rocky famous, as he’s now got his own mp3
recording: the demo test file for the functional tests

Kapil’s member stuff

Kapil wants to have a very easy way to attach some properties to
member objects. The properties are attached to members with a bit of
zcml and a zope3 schema. Under the hood, a PAS plugin takes care of
storing the data.

The difference with remember/membrane: it is simpler, but the
members are regular plone members, not content objects: so no
workflow. The code of ore.member is available in
svn .

David Convent - export and import of content with genericsetup

He fixed some plone 3 bugs with Daniel. The ordering of contenttypes
and action providers was off some.

For the rest he worked with Stefan and Ramon on import and export
of content in plone. XMLforest and gsxml were the candidates and
gsxml was the one they picked. Gsxml missed references, so they
tried to add that. For that, they needed to touch marshall. The
unittests of marshall weren’t running and they tried to fix that.

After a while, Kapil showed them another generic setup based
import/export product that handled references, but that also had
limitations. In the end, they’re using zexp/pickles to export the
references folder, which seems to work (magically).

They believe they’ve got all the necessary parts, now all that’s
left to do is assemble them

One very very very very handy tool they discovered is
ipython for doing an interactive python
session. I mentioned clouseau (the great in-python interactive
javascript-enabled python shell) to Stefan and he said he used it
until he found ipython and never touched clouseau afterwards. You
need a special zope profile that Stefan will put online real soon or
I’ll have his hide. Interactive editing, tab completion. A traceback
shows not only the line itself, but shows the line in context (2
lines before and after the offending line). not only the final line
where it fails, but it does it for every line in the traceback.

Something they wanted me to write down: if you install python on the
mac using darwinports, you get a buserror when using libxml2.

Alec Mitchell

Mostly walking around making sure that people who are fixing bugs
know what exactly needs fixing and helping them getting
started. Also he’s working a bit on a relationship product that he
maintains. At the moment, he’s fixing security holes in plone with
Ramon.

Balasz Ree - KSS

When I sat next to him he was getting frustrated by templates and
macros that need a global context. They at least often need more
than is provided/detectable inside the macro itself.

KSS status: loads of bugfixing happened. There has especially been a
load of testing to really verify the bugs were gone.