Websites Report May 2008

Plone Upgrade from 2.5.2 to 2.5.5.

Our Plone website has now been successsfully upgraded by Jan and Barry.

Installation on HSR 29/4.  The .zexp imported immediately and gave a successful import notice. Tests showed all working apart from the ZWiki .59.  Noticed  the ZWiki product was wrongly name ZWIKI.  Renamed it to ZWiki, stopped and restarted Zope.  ZWiki now working.  Content seems to be ok too.

Despite extensive testing before upgrading on the hosted site the following problems appeared after the upgrade:
Problem 1: issue tracker contents not viewable by anonymous - solved

Solution:  recatalogued the site and contents are now viewable.

Problem 2: issue tracker was allowing anonymous edits and we started to get spam - solved

Solution:  Added a new property to wiki  - edits_needs_username true
This means anyone trying to edit the wiki is presented with a permission denied screen and asked to log in. Faulty login screen is removed and normal right hand login is available.

Problem 3: wiki date problem  shows -1year immediately after an edit.  A few hours later this turns into the correct time

Tried adding TZ=EST=10 because zope is us centric.  This works in the plone interface but not the zope interface.  There you see US time.  The wiki gives a -1year immediately after an edit.

Problem 4:  Ongoing problem zope showing UTC rather than AEST time. Investigating a solution.

Domain Name

Our domain name computerbank.org.au has been renewed for another two years.

Silva Upgrade from1.4.1b to Silva 2.0.7

The tests on upgrading our documentation site content have been successful, many thanks for Barry Klein for doing this.  When I get back from holidays at the end of June, I will negotiate the upgrade with our hosting company Obsidian.

Upgrade notes

by Barry Klien
Test performed by Barry Klein with advice from Jan

Zope 2.7.8 used with

Silva 1.4.x and 1.5.x

Took computerbank Silva .zexp which was Silva version 1.4.1b  and imported it into Silva 1.4.2

Imported OK.

Upgraded Silva to 1.5.11 in Zope instance

Ran upgrade

No Errors.

Exported to .zexp

Zope 2.8.9.1 required for

Silva 1.6.2

Tried to import .zexp: failed "Illegal character"

Copied Data.fs from Silva 1.5.11

Ran Upgrade - no errors.

Test: Edit page, delete page, add page - OK

Zope 2.10.2+ required for

Silva 2.0+

Installed Zope 2.10.5 from Debian repository

Added Silva 2.0.7

Copied Data.fs (from 1.6.2) to the new instance

Ran upgrade

No errors

Documentation Content

Tony C has revised and revamped the Front of House/ Reception documentation - a long overdue job.  He has streamlined the content converting some of it to checklists amongst other things to make it easier to access.  We will add this content to this website.

Jan S updated the out of date printer information for recipients.

Barry K has written an excellent  report on the content in our documentation site with notes about obsolete and outdated material.  Many thanks for this Barry this makes it easier for us to assign updating tasks.