[ZWeb] HELP: Taking over a piece of software

[Paul Everitt]

Martijn will make sure you get it in the next hour.

--Paul

Andy McKay wrote:

> I needed this exact peice of software for ASPN yesterday. I was going to
> write my own. I'll happily take a look and see if I can take this to where I
> need it and hopefully likewise for new.zope.org.
> 
> Cheers.
> --
>   Andy McKay.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Everitt" <paul@zope.com>
> To: <zope-web@zope.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 2:06 PM
> Subject: [ZWeb] HELP: Taking over a piece of software
> 
> 
> 
>>Howdy.  Here's a call for help that is concrete and involves managing
>>software.  It's a creampuff of an opportunity to contribute on
>>
> new.zope.org.
> 
>>Here's the deal.  Pretend the current new.zope.org winds up being the
>>starting point for the ultimate new.zope.org (we'll know more tomorrow).
>>  There's a piece of software used that is similar to Redirector, but
>>not quite the same thing.  It was written to solve specific problems for
>>migrating old zope.org content to new zope.org.
>>
>>We need someone to pick this up and maintain it as part of the new
>>zope.org, again, presuming we continue along this path.
>>
>>Here's a rough description from Andreas Jung (the author) and Martijn
>>Pieters (who's currently sitting on the egg):
>>
>>"""
>>- Redirector is placed at the base of the URL to be redirected. If
>>   you want to redirect /foo/bar/*, you create a 'bar' Redirector
>>   in Folder 'foo'.
>>
>>- Rewriter will be placed in the root folder, and is considered
>>   a service.   It'll maintain a tree of URLs to redirect. When
>>   a redirect is needed, the service is directky invoked
>>   (via __call__) and the rewriter will deduce from the
>>   REQUEST object what the requested URL was and invoke that
>>   URL. The idea is to make this call from standard_error_message.
>>
>>So for a site with lots of redirects, lots of Rewriters need to be
>>instantiated. Rewriter let's you manage this centrally, but it
>>needs to be invoked explicitely from standard_error_message.
>>"""
>>
>>So, the ideal solution is for someone to pick this software up, figure
>>out how it works, and release it as a Zope Product.
>>
>>--Paul
>>
>>
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