Hello everyone. In an effort to make sure that everyone knows what’s being done and what needs to be done, here’s a list of both. If you’re wondering what you should be caring about, this is it.
If you’re looking for a way to get involved, these may be great starting points. If you aren’t sure where you might fit in, email me at esteele@plone.org and I’ll do my best to find a place to exploit your talents.
Eric
Community Tasks
Plone 4.3 is ready to be released. If you’ve got an idea for 4.4/5, now’s the time to get it in. How do you do that? By creating a PLIP (https://dev.plone.org/wiki/PLIP). The Framework Team will be discussing our wishlist at our next meeting, so you’ll hear more about that next month.
The Sea Sprint is currently collecting donations to bring in more developers to finish up Deco Lite. If you or your company has a stake in making Plone better at content editing and layout (and I think that’s all of us), now is the time to make it happen. Donate at http://seasprint2012.chipin.com/sea-sprint-2012
Please go vote for the talks you want to see at the Plone Conference (http://www.ploneconf.org/the-event/talks/conference-talks). Also, go to the Plone Conference.
These people need commit access. Who’s on it? : https://dev.plone.org/query?status=assigned&status=confirmed&status=new&status=reopened&component=CommitAccess&group=status&col=id&col=summary&col=status&report=51&order=priorityDone!Liz wants a new contributor agreement collection process. I’d agree. Liz, where can we discuss progress on that? Update: Liz points us to this document:
Releases To Try
- Plone 4.2.1 is in “soft release” status. Point your buildouts at http://dist.plone.org/release/4.2.1-pending/versions.cfg to try it out. I’m still waiting on another bugfix, but this one should go to final release status soon.
- Products.TinyMCE 1.3b2 is available on pypi. This fixes a slew of issues we’ve all been having with TinyMCE. While we’re still waiting on a 4.3a1 release, you can try this one out in your 4.2 sites. Please do, we want to get this one right.
- Similarly, we’d like to know what it’ll take to upgrade to jQuery 1.7.x. Update plone.app.jquery to 1.7.2 (but not on your live site!) and submit bug reports for any issues.
High Impact Bugs
- TinyMCE and alt tags: https://dev.plone.org/ticket/12322. This is the most repeatedly-reported bug of the last 3 months.
- Fixing error on plone.org when an item is protected by login: https://dev.plone.org/ticket/12996
Quick Documentation Fixes
- Fix broken images in “where is what”: https://dev.plone.org/ticket/11625
- Update documentation on global variables in templates: https://dev.plone.org/ticket/13093
- Document how to reset a password: https://dev.plone.org/ticket/9411
The QA Team says
- Who wants to help the QA team? Join in at plone-qa-team@lists.plone.org
- Unless someone can argue that the bounty missions have been successful, let’s close those tickets out.
- Close/re-verify all tickets from 2008 and 2009. There are only about 10: https://dev.plone.org/report/1?sort=modified&asc=1&page=1 . Goal is to make sure all tickets in the tracker are somewhat modern
General issues, interesting problems (Fix them or debate them, I just want them gone)
- Gifs are getting over-pixellated since Archetypes 1.7.11: https://dev.plone.org/ticket/12952
- Acquisition takes precedence over redirects: https://dev.plone.org/ticket/12940
- TinyMCE no warning on unsaved body edits: https://dev.plone.org/ticket/12983
- Content state changes use a get instead of post, which causes some issues: See https://dev.plone.org/ticket/12447, https://dev.plone.org/ticket/11970
- plone.app.collection does not store and filter path index: https://dev.plone.org/ticket/13012. Pull request, needs review
- Collection Views broken (Default view, Summary view, Thumbnail view): https://dev.plone.org/ticket/13010
- prefs_install_products_form: Rendering causes traceback from Products.TinyMCE.adapters.schema.getRichTextFieldNames(): https://dev.plone.org/ticket/12992