[Grok-doc] proposed 1.0 release text

Martijn Faassen faassen at startifact.com
Thu Oct 1 11:23:50 EDT 2009


Hi there,

I've done some work on a 1.0 release text. Improvements are welcome!

The Grok_ development team is very happy to release Grok 1.0. Grok 1.0
is the culmination of 3 years of work after the start of the Grok
project in late 2006. It presents a stable development platform to
develop powerful, extensible web applications. Grok is the result of
years of work by the large Grok development team.

Grok 1.0 is not the end of Grok development. Since Grok is extensible
many powerful new features are being made available directly in Grok
1.0 in a growing collection of extension packages. The Grok
development team is working on a whole host of initiatives to improve
Grok even further. The Grok documentation team is also busily working
on improving Grok's extensive documentation resources.

.. _Grok: http://grok.zope.org

About Grok
-----------------

Grok is a modern Python-based web framework. Grok is powerful in the
hands of an expert developer, as it excels in reuse and extensibility
thanks to its use of a component development model. At the same time
Grok aims to let beginners be productive immediately, so that they
smoothly walk up the learning curve.

Grok lets you store easily your Python objects in the battle-tested
ZODB, an object database. Alternatively relational databases are
supported with Grok, using the `megrok.rdb`_ extension.

.. _`megrok.rdb`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/megrok.rdb

Grok is developed in the Zope community and is built with Zope
technologies. In particular, Grok builds on the `Zope Toolkit`_, a
collection of libraries that make use of a common component
development model, the Zope Component Architecture. The Zope community
has more than a decade of experience in developing web applications
with Python. The Zope Toolkit is the result of this experience,

.. _`Zope Toolkit`: http://docs.zope.org/zopetoolkit/

Grok is WSGI compatible and can therefore be integrated with the wide
range of WSGI-based technologies available in the Python world today.

Grok technologies themselves are also available for reuse. This has
enabled developers to use them in combination with the Silva and Plone
CMS projects, which work with the Zope 2 application server.


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