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WeekEnding15June2000
This week in the PTK Community
David Brown, author of Zope Fish agreed to join TeamPTK?. Welcome!
We arrived at protocol for gaining consensus on proposed changes:
Create a tracker issue embodying the proposal (which then emails the list).
Discuss the proposal in email, copying significant arguments to the tracker.
Finally, one TeamPTK? member accepts the item, makes the changes, and posts the patch/update.
After a final "speak now or forever hold your peace" interval, TeamPTK? member checks in changes.
Bill Anderson found a workaround for the problem of DTML methods "losing" other methods inside the portal.
Dan Pierson checked in his patches integrating the PTK with the new LoginManager.
Dan also proposed fixing "Discussable" items such that they always "display their discussion",
Kevin Dangoor posted a tracker issue describing the difficulty of customizing the display of PortalContent objects.
Tres Seaver created a somewhat terse How-To on creating PortalContent classes as ZClasses
Tres also wrapped up the vision statement for the PTK-NG:
Phillip Eby delivered a wonderful motivation piece for the ZPatterns meta-framework he and Ty Sarna have been building (and which underlies LoginManager).
Shane Hathaway replied with a nice file clerk analogy for explaining the ZPatterns.
Kevin Dangoor released a new Membership product which packages the LoginManager in a more "friendly" bundle. He is asking for testers, with the goal of re-integrating the package with the PTK after a shakeout.
A new discussion on refactoring some of the dependencies between PTKBase? and PTKDemo? broke out, yielding two Tracker issues:
Looking Ahead
Re-integrate Kevin Dangoor's Membership product
Land proposed refactoring of concrete PortalContent and of Discussable decoupling.
Discuss integrating ZPatterns more closely into PortalContent.
PTK Tracker Vitals, WE 2000/06/13
Here is is the current state of the tracker:
Type / Status New Closed CurrentBug Reports 4 0 19
Feature/Doc Requests 1 0 15