[Checkins] SVN: bluebream/website/main/ Added "about" section
Baiju M
baiju.m.mail at gmail.com
Wed Aug 11 12:35:59 EDT 2010
Log message for revision 115635:
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--- bluebream/website/main/_templates/index.html 2010-08-11 12:11:13 UTC (rev 115634)
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<div class="topnavbar">
<ul>
- <li><a href="doc/1.0/introduction.html">About</a></li>
+ <li><a href="about/index.html">About</a></li>
<li><a href="download.html">Download</a></li>
<li><a href="screencasts.html">Screencasts</a></li>
<li><a href="doc/1.0/index.html">Documentation</a></li>
Added: bluebream/website/main/about/history.rst
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+.. _history:
+
+The history of BlueBream
+========================
+
+Our story begins in 1996. `Jim Fulton` was technical director at digital
+creations. At the International Python Conference (IPC) that year, Jim gave
+a presentation on `CGI`: `Python and Internet Programming`_. Jim,
+considering CGI less than elegant, envisioned a better way to program for
+the internet in Python. According to legend, Jim learned CGI on the plane
+to the conference, and designed `Bobo` on the plane ride back home.
+
+Digital Creations then released three open-source Python software packages:
+Bobo, Document Template, and Bobopos. These packages -- a web publisher, a
+text template, and an object database -- were the core of *Principia*, a
+commercial application server. In November of 1998, investor Hadar Pedhazur
+convinced Digital Creations to open source Principia. These packages
+evolved into the core components of Zope 2 and Digital Creations became Zope
+Corporation.
+
+Since those days Zope has been under active development. It has evolved in
+several ways as the community gained experience, continually seeking the
+optimum balance between power and ease of use. Zope 2 emphasized rapid
+development, the `Zope Component Architecture`, which is the core of Zope 3,
+emphasized modularity and configurability which proved very successful in
+"enterprise" applications requiring flexibility and scalability.
+
+Zope 3 is now known as BlueBream. The name stems from the coincidence that
+the Z Object Publishing Environment when spelled `zope` is the name of a
+species of fish. `Blue bream`_ is another name for the same species.
+
+BlueBream combines the ZCA, Buildout into a well defined, and documented,
+that makes building powerhouse applications fun.
+
+The components which comprise BlueBream are under continual development by
+an international team of experienced coders.
+
+The longer learning curve for deploying Zope 3 is overkill for some
+situations which would otherwise stand to benefit from the distilled wisdom
+of the ZCA. The Zope community has responded to this in with several
+rapidly deployable ZCA-derived frameworks, which implement Convention over
+configuration while maintaining the power of ZCA under the hood. Notable
+among these are Grok and Repoze. Take a look at the recent uploads to the
+PyPi site, it is rare to not see several zca projects listed.
+
+.. _Convention over configuration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_over_configuration
+
+.. _python and Internet Programming: http://www.python.org/workshops/1996-06/agenda.html
+
+.. _Repoze: http://repoze.org/
+.. _Blue bream: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_bream
+.. _PyPi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi
+.. _intro-organization:
+
+.. _intro-more-about-project:
+
+
+The original intent of Zope 3 was to become a replacement for Zope 2,
+however this did not happen as planned. Instead Zope 2 continued to make up
+the majority of new Zope deployments, mostly due to the popularity of Plone.
+
+Zope 3 was conceived as a fresh start to leave certain aspects and
+limitations of its presumed predecessor `Zope 2
+<http://docs.zope.org/zope2/zope2book/>`_ behind. Zope 3 introduced a new
+component architecture to address some of the inheritance-based-programming
+limitations of Zope 2.
+
+The `ZCA <http://www.muthukadan.net/docs/zca.html>`_ notionally includes the
+packages named ``zope.component``, ``zope.interface`` and
+``zope.configuration``. Zope 3 added to this a large number of extra
+libraries and provided an application server that enabled programmers to
+develop standalone web applications.
+
+In the meantime another wave of web frameworks appeared. `Grok` evolved
+with many Zope 3 libraries at its core. `repoze.bfg (aka BFG)
+<http://bfg.repoze.org>`_ evolved around the ZCA. Additionally Zope 2 began
+to make use of the ZCA and various other Zope 3 packages.
+
+In 2009 a group of Zope developers agreed to concentrate primarily on the
+development of the Zope 3 libraries and formed the Zope Toolkit (ZTK) that
+focused on a slim library subset of the Zope 3 project, which can then be
+efficiently utilized by web application frameworks on top. This development
+led to the following logical steps:
+
+- Form a project around the remaining web application part of Zope 3
+
+- Name it BlueBream as a new and unique name to avoid confusion
+
+- Create an upgrade path from the former Zope 3 application server
+
+BlueBream can thus be seen as the successor of Zope 3 web application server
+that like Grok relies on the ZTK.
Added: bluebream/website/main/about/index.rst
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+About
+=====
+
+.. toctree::
+ :numbered:
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ whatis
+ history
+ website
+
+----
+
+**What is BlueBream ?**
+
+**BlueBream** -- formerly known as **Zope 3** -- is a web framework written
+in the Python programming language.
+
+BlueBream is free/open source software, owned by the `Zope Foundation`.
+Bluebream is licensed under the `Zope Public License` (BSD like, GPL
+compatible license).
+
+:ref:`Read more <whatis>`
+
+----
+
+**The history of BlueBream**
+
+
+BlueBream has a history dating back to 2001.
+
+:ref:`Read more <history>`
+
+----
+
+**About website**
+
+This website is maintained by community.
+
+:ref:`Read more <website>`
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+.. _website:
+
+About the BlueBream website
+===========================
+
+This website is maintained by BlueBream community which is part of the
+greater Zope community.
+
+Reporting Problems
+------------------
+
+.. Change this email to current contact person
+
+To report a bug or to suggest an enhancement, send an e-mail to:
+baiju.m.mail [AT] gmail.com
+
+If you're reporting a problem (a broken link, typo, formatting glitch, etc),
+please include the URL of the affected page.
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+.. _whatis:
+
+What is BlueBream ?
+===================
+
+**BlueBream** -- formerly known as **Zope 3** -- is a web framework written
+in the Python programming language.
+
+A few features distinguish BlueBream from other Python web frameworks.
+
+- BlueBream is built on top of the `Zope Tool Kit` (ZTK), which has many
+ years of experience proving it meets the demanding requirements for
+ stable, scalable software.
+
+- BlueBream uses the powerful and familiar `Buildout` system written in
+ Python.
+
+- BlueBream employs the Zope Object Database (`ZODB`), a transactional
+ object database providing extremely powerful and easy to use persistence.
+
+- BlueBream registers components with Zope Component Markup Language
+ (`ZCML`), an XML based configuration language, providing limitless
+ flexibility.
+
+- BlueBream features the `Zope Component Architecture` (ZCA) which
+ implements `Separation of concerns` to create highly cohesive reusable
+ components (zope.component_).
+
+- BlueBream implements Python Web Server Gateway Interface `WSGI` using
+ `Paste`, `PasteScript`, and `PasteDeploy`.
+
+- BlueBream includes a number of well tested components to implement common
+ activities. A few are of these are:
+
+ - zope.publisher_ publishes Python objects on the web, emphasizing `WSGI`
+ compatibility
+
+ - zope.security_ provides a generic mechanism for pluggable security
+ policies
+
+ - zope.testing_ and zope.testbrowser_ offer unit and functional testing
+ frameworks
+
+ - zope.pagetemplate_ is an XHTML-compliant language for devloping
+ templates
+
+ - zope.schema_ is a schema engine
+
+ - zope.formlib_ is a tool for automatically generating forms
+
+BlueBream is free/open source software, owned by the `Zope Foundation`.
+Bluebream is licensed under the `Zope Public License` (BSD like, GPL
+compatible license).
+
+.. _zope.component: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.component
+.. _zope.publisher: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.publisher
+.. _zope.security: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.security
+.. _zope.testing: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.testing
+.. _zope.testbrowser: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.testbrowser
+.. _zope.pagetemplate: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.pagetemplate
+.. _zope.schema: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.schema
+.. _zope.formlib: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.formlib
Modified: bluebream/website/main/index.rst
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--- bluebream/website/main/index.rst 2010-08-11 12:11:13 UTC (rev 115634)
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@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
:numbered:
:maxdepth: 2
+ about/index
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