After a first day of setting up everybody and finding intersting subjects to work on, I spent today working on the Five-2.8 integration.

One of my goals was to remove monkey-patching, which is mainly done except that Five has a need for an unrestricted TALES engine, but Zope's TALES engine is very not modular and very difficult to subclass. Five, to avoid copying code, is actually using code from Dieter Maurer that copies function objects and rebind their arguments to add new definitions to the scope... a nice hack but maybe something we can get rid of.

The goal is to release a beta of Zope 2.8 that includes Five (and the needed Zope X3 components) as soon as possible, possibly by the end of the week (but don't hold your breath).

This will be very useful because it will put Zope 3 technologies directly in the hands of Zope developers, without any additional installs. That's crucial to gain acceptance and visibility, and more importantly to gain developers that will be more willing to work with Zope 3.