First of all, thanks to Alex Clark, Peter Mathis, Érico Andrei, and Elizabeth Leddy for clearing up issues mentioned in the previous update!
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 and a mentor to help you along.
Eric
Releases:
- Unified and OS X installers for Plone 4.2.1 are now available at http://plone.org/products/plone/releases/4.2.1.
- A note on Windows installers: Alan Runyan reports rather severe problems migrating it to Python 2.7. We’re looking at potential solutions, most likely Ross Patterson’s work on using Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer. I hope to get the interested parties together soon to move things forward. If you’re interested in helping, let me know and I’ll include you.
- Plone 4.3a1 should be out in the next week. Keep an eye out, there’s some great stuff in there.
Community Things:
- The Sea Sprint has reached its fund raising goal. Thank you to all who contributed.
- The talk schedule for Plone Conference 2012 is now available:
- For those still looking for lodging for the conference, have you considered the Plone Boat?
- Nathan van Gheem has started a UI Team review of some of Plone’s existing features. They’ll be looking for ways to revamp, declutter, and otherwise improve core functionality. This is a good opportunity to weigh in on areas of confusion or to take the proposed changes and make the fixes. Follow the discussion here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29742345
- Plone Symposium South America has wrapped up and was an astounding success. Don’t be surprised if you see a lot of impact from Plone South America this coming year! In contributions from more than 18 new core developers, we saw a burst of internationalization efforts across several key documents. Read more at http://plonechix.blogspot.com.br/2012/08/plone-south-america-sprint-report-day-1.html
- Elizabeth Leddy is working to revamp the contributor agreement process. She’s collecting thoughts here: http://piratepad.net/gHbJXO3SFL. Let’s make it easier for everyone to get contributing to Plone!
- Another product of the PSSA sprints is the Plone Todo tutorial which teaches beginner integration concepts. Not only is it a good read, it’s also being tested against all new Plone releases so that we can be sure that neither the tutorial nor Plone itself is broken.
- The 60th Plone Tuneup is Friday, September 21st! Help us triage and fix tickets in this very special installment.
High Impact Bugs:
- Tiny MCE and alt tags: https://dev.plone.org/ticket/12322 . This is the most duplicate 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
- The new plone.app.jquery disables jquery-integration.js when upgrading Plone. For those using unwrapped jQuery calls, this can cause an “undefined variable: jq” error when loading pages. We need to make sure this gets documented in the 4.2 upgrade guide.
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
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
- prefs_install_products_form: Rendering causes traceback from
- Products.TinyMCE.adapters.schema.getRichTextFieldNames(): https://dev.plone.org/ticket/12992
- plone.app.stagingbehavior can break a site: https://dev.plone.org/ticket/13126
- plone.app.theming edits are tied to manager role: https://dev.plone.org/ticket/13156
Trac Archeology – Oldies but goodies:
- PlonePAS needs to traverse to unauthorized page instead of redirecting https://dev.plone.org/ticket/3493 (should this be a PLIP?) (2004)
- Search keywords raise errors https://dev.plone.org/ticket/2963 (2004)
- Move happytalk in mails to the footer https://dev.plone.org/ticket/7001 (2006) Delete or PLIP!