Sprintathon Activity and Achievements

The following list of bullet points gives an indication of the sprint's focus and tasks. For more detailed information see the links in the page above (and the documentation created ;-)

Workflow

Setup core framework
Plan minumum interface that is common to both types of workflow
Basic stateful process definition (CMF-like workflow)
Start scheduling system for managing tasks in a task queue (model for asynchronous actions)

Search

Ported ZC text index (from Zope 2 to 3)
ZCText index is available stand-alone for ZODB
ZCText index bug fixes backported to zope 2
Made content indexable (without changing content classes)
Worked out a general component architecture for queries
Everything except querying hooked up to UI
Text index objects can be indexed on adding or by traversing folders
A working text index was demonstrated on thursday
Query service is in progress
Efficient batched queries

Architecture

New naming scheme for API

System

Adapters for various databases (MySQL, Postgres, SAP DB)

UI

There is a now basic UI, based on Plone CSS

Includes general page structure and CSS of the UI skin

Contents view has a navigation tree

Dynamic, fold and unfold without reload using javascript
Fed by XML

Common tasks action box (most used actions at top)

Implemented add view

Users / Authentication

Created user authentication methods
Implemented simple sessions
Application service
Service for managing user data

Documentation

Worked on documentation infrastructure system

Created docs on:

schema
security
debug mechanism
install doc

Use of page templates outside of Zope

Tools for automatic doc generation / interactive documentation

Command line inspector
Shows what is registered, with command line completion
Automatic listing including number of parameters
Tab after first parenthesis displays code of item