Webware for Python

I have added a date on my calendar for another beta cut, presently 
September 7 depending on work loads. I would greatly appreciate help in 
addressing the issues raised by Christoph.

I have notes for changes to ReleaseProcedures.html, and I can clean the 
.cvsignore files out easily enough when I build up the next beta cut.

Help is needed with other items on his list...

	Webware/Docs/StyleGuidelines.raw
	Webware/bin/MakeAppWorkDir.py
	Webware/bin/pystats.py
	Webware/bin/ReleaseHelper.py

Volunteers are most welcome.

  - Mark

On Jul 31, 2005, at 7:18 PM, Christoph Zwerschke wrote:

> I went through most of the Webware toplevel doco today and checked in 
> lots of html cleanup and cosmetic improvements (I hope it's ok to do 
> this directly in the trunk, since it can hardly break anything).
>
> Actually, the whole documentation creation process should be 
> overhauled. Currently it's very patchy with a lot of different tools 
> and obscure automagic. There's the ".htmlf" header/footer fragment 
> processing and there are ".raw" templates which are actually only used 
> for one single page of the doco (the style guidelines). The htmlf/raw 
> do not mix. There are also other pages that are not processed at all. 
> And there are even pages which do not have a proper head and body 
> section, e.g. ClassList.html. In the long run, I think we would do 
> good to change over to a consistent documentation creation process 
> throughout Webware, using one of Webware's featured templating 
> languages such as PSP or Kid.
>
> I also noticed that there are still a lot of references to CVS as 
> opposed to SVN, for instance in:
>
> Webware/Docs/StyleGuidelines.raw
> Webware/Docs/ReleaseProcedures.html
> .cvsignore files everywhere
> Webware/bin/MakeAppWorkDir.py
> Webware/bin/pystats.py
> Webware/bin/ReleaseHelper.py
>
> Maybe somebody who knows more about the release procedures and 
> migration to SVN can adjust these things and get rid of the CVS 
> reminiscences.
>
> -- Christoph

On Aug 24, 2005, at 12:35 AM, Christoph Zwerschke wrote:

> It's good that there will be another beta. There are still some things 
> I want to contribute to the 0.9 release. I'll try to do it before Sep 
> 7. Do you have set up an approximate date for the actual 0.9 release?

There is, as you have pointed out, a number of things to do to say 
"This is the final release." Others have suggested we clean things up 
and release 1.0. Given how stable the product is, I agree with this 
view. So I am doing the 0.9 series to give the group a chance to polish 
things up.

IOW, no, I don't have a date for a 0.9 release. I am happy to set a 
target date if that helps us get motivated.

  - Mark