[Zope-Annce] Zope 3.0 final bug and cleanup days

[Stephan Richter]

Hello everyone,

nearly a month has passed since the last release. I originally planned to 
release Zope X3.0.0 final on or release candidate 1 on July 1. Due to a lack 
of contributions towards X3.0.0 the past month, we will not able to make this 
date. However, I am determined to not push the date much further back. 
Therefore I call upon all experienced and in-experienced Zope 3 developers 
and helpers on a bug and cleanup week!

The bug and cleanup days will be between July 6-9, 2004. If you would like to 
work on tasks on July 5th, since it is a US holiday and you have time, then 
feel free to do so; I will most likely be around!

Here is an overview of tasks to do:

1. Fix all outstanding (and applicable) Collector issues. The collector is 
located at http://collector.zope.org/Collectors/Zope3-dev. There are about 70 
open bugs, of which at least 20 are credible and fixable (I think). 

2. Start removing XXX comments. Christian's XXX report can be found at 
http://amy.gocept.com/~ctheune/XXXreport.html. There are about 500 of these 
comments. Not all need to be fixed now, but many should. Christian, maybe it 
would be useful to make a Zope application out of this report, so that we can 
comment on the XXX comments?

3. Finish the tasks listed in the 
http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/SpringCleaningDay2004 proposal. It is not spring 
anymore, but I think these defects should be fixed in the source before the 
release.

4. Documentation format. Currently we have an unhealthy mix of reST and STX 
formatted doc strings in the Zope 3 source code. Since we decided to go with 
reST, we should make sure that all doc strings are formatted this way. This 
is a great task for non-developers to get to know Zope 3's source.

5. Update/Create translations. The only languages that are in decent/good 
shape right now are English, Russian, German and French. If you are 
interested in Zope X3.0.0 supporting your favorite/native language, then 
please let me know and I get you started.

The list above is in order of importance. We definitely need to get the bulk 
of 1-3 done before the final release. I want as many obvious bugs as possible 
gone and a solid documentation via the API doc tool. BTW, one way of ensuring 
the quality of the user interface would be to write functional tests!

Please use the Zope3-Dev mailing for discussing the tasks and letting me know 
that you are willing to help out.

Thanks!

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
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