State of the PTK, 2000/09/21

 In the weeks since our last report, the PTK community has been
 rather quiet:

  * The issue of integrating the PTK membership system with external
    authentication sources (especially NT/SMB authentication) is near
    and dear to many folks' hearts.

     - Bill Anderson announced a "security fix release",
        http://www.zope.org/Members/Bill/Products/Membership
       to the Membership product;  Membership is an "ease-of-use"
       layer on top of the LoginManager/ZPatterns products, and
       has not yet been re-integrated with the PTK.

     - Michael Bernstein has worked out the details of using LoginManger
       and Membership to create a portal authenticated against SMB
       including "getting local roles to work",
        http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-September/001740.html

     - Phillip Eby released "version 0.4.2a3 of ZPatterns",
        http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-September/001721.html

     * Shane Hathaway added "support for a portal_preferences tool",
        http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-September/001709.html
       which will allow the portal to store data about a member
       separately from the user object provided by the authentication
       machinery.

  * Chris McDonough has created a "proposal",
      http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/ApplicationObject
    for "Application Objects" in Zope;  he is asking the PTK community
    for feedback.

  * Tres Seaver "added back the constructor form",
      http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-September/001695.html
    for PortalFolders.

  * Shane Hathaway fixed a two bugs reported by Andy Dawkins:
  
    - one in which "Discussion replies were created private",
       http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-September/001610.html
    - another in which unchanged passwords were "mysteriously set
      to None",
        http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-September/001671.html

  * Several "open questions" were raised on the list:

    - Joachim Schmitz asked "is there anybody working on a multilingual
      PTK?",
        http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-September/001708.html
    
    - Jerry Spicklemire prompted, "How does an Owner delegate, or assign
      an Alternate?",
       http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-September/001651.html
      for workflow purposes.

 Our goal for the coming week is to release version 0.9 of the PTK.

PTK Tracker Vitals, 2000/09/04 (since 2000/09/04)

 Here is is the current state of the tracker::

  Type / Status   New     Closed     Current

    Bug Reports     2         1          27

    Feature/Doc
       Requests     0         0          14


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