[Zope] ATTENTION: Zope.org migration issues

[Andy McKay]

How long do we have to do this, call me paranoid but I want to backup my
stuff...

Cheers.
--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Martijn Pieters" <mj@zope.com>
To: <zope-announce@zope.org>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>; <zope-web@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 1:46 PM
Subject: [Zope] ATTENTION: Zope.org migration issues


> Hello to all Members of Zope.org,
>
> As some of you may know, we are hard at work building a new Zope.Org
website
> based entirely on the CMF. Because this is going to be a completely new
> server, content on the current server has to be migrated and converted for
> the new site.
>
> Most of the content on Zope.org can be migrated quite easily. However,
there
> are a few content types in use on Zope.org that cannot or will not be
> migrated directly or at all. These types will have to be converted to
> another content type if they are to be migrated to the new site.
>
> You only have to worry about content in your own Member Folder, and only
if
> you really want it migrated. Here are the problem types and what to do
with
> the content they represent:
>
> - DTML Method: paste the contents into a 'STX Document' for structured
text,
>   or 'Formatted Document' for html formatting. DTML scripting will no
longer be
>   supperted on the new Zope.org site.
>
> - XML Document: XML Document is usually used to act as the source for a
>   end-document. Render the end-document view to HTML and paste the result
>   into a Formatted Document
>
> - ZTopic: Unfortunately, there is no alternative for migrating a ZTopic.
If
>   you have created a ZTopic in your Member Folder and feel that it
provides
>   value to Zope.org visitors let me know and I'll see if we can provide an
>   alternative.
>
> --
> Martijn Pieters
> | Software Engineer  mailto:mj@zope.com
> | Zope Corporation   http://www.zope.com/
> | Creators of Zope   http://www.zope.org/
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