Mixed-Pickles

Zope.org indexing is rather broken, whether this is due to the size of the ZODB or the age of the instance (zope.org runs on python2.3, zope2.7, plone1.0.3) i don't know -- but the bug is somewhere in DateTime handling. Rumors have it that a new zope.org is in the making, hope to get a glimpse at it soon.

Plone3 is out, and its rather fast. It is even faster if you switch-off Javascript in your browser (pages render 2-10 times faster than with JS enabled, check with firebug if you do not believe me -- btw. does one know, why concatenating the CSS files takes so long?) -- while most of the functionality works with JS disabled, some features need configuration: Kupu support for textareas must be disabled in the users preferences (i haven't found a global switch to disable Kupu). The bad news is, that editing documents is not entirely possible without JS due to a bug in form-handling of the Page portal type (TIY: switch off JS, create a new Page, edit the first form and click the 'Next' button,...).

I love Bones, the plone_hosting paster template Jarn released recently. You could get into troubles making it run if you use a custom python build -- while the main paster process uses your custom python, the buildout function calls out to a 'python', which almost for sure is *not* your custom python but the system python. Please, please, please don't make us think so hard and dig so deep into your codebase -- why not check or setup the environment in a way that the correct python interpreter is selected?

See you soon...