PeriodEnding25September2000

In the weeks since our last report, the PTK community has been rather quiet:

The issue of integrating the PTK membership system with external authentication sources (especially NT/SMB authentication) is near and dear to many folks' hearts.
- Bill Anderson announced a security fix release to the Membership product; Membership is an "ease-of-use" layer on top of the LoginManager/ZPatterns products, and has not yet been re-integrated with the PTK.
- Michael Bernstein has worked out the details of using LoginManager and Membership to create a portal authenticated against SMB including getting local roles to work.
- Phillip Eby released version 0.4.2a3 of ZPatterns
- Shane Hathaway added support for a portal_preferences tool which will allow the portal to store data about a member separately from the user object provided by the authentication machinery.
Chris McDonough? has created a proposal for "Application Objects" in Zope; he is asking the PTK community for feedback.
Tres Seaver added back the constructor form for PortalFolders?.
Shane Hathaway fixed a two bugs reported by Andy Dawkins:
- one in which Discussion replies were created private - another in which unchanged passwords were mysteriously set to None
Several "open questions" were raised on the list:
- Joachim Schmitz asked is there anybody working on a multilingual PTK?
- Jerry Spicklemire prompted, How does an Owner delegate, or assign an Alternate? for workflow purposes.

Our goal for the coming week is to release version 0.9 of the PTK.

Here is is the current state of the tracker:

Type / Status New Closed Current

Bug Reports 2 1 27

Feature/Doc Requests 0 0 14