migrate-btrees to the rescue

I had some old folderish content from Plone 2.5 and when i tried to migrate this to Plone 4 it was not working correctly. I was getting

AttributeError: has_key

exceptions from Products.BTreeFolder. I also found this article describing this problem:

http://plone.org/documentation/error/nonetype-keys

but no clear solution.

It turns out that ATContentTypes 2.0 changes the ATFolder implementation to use BTreeFolder as the base class. Thankfully a migration view is provided called "migrate-btrees" that will migrate all the folderish items under the given path.

At the end I got a nice message in my log:

2010-05-31 22:23:35 INFO plone.app.folder.migration processed 3490 object(s) in 10.864s (10.640s cpu time)

Zopeskel/Paster created plone3_theme shows up without the "Plone default" css

This is by design.

"Plone default" does not mean the standard Plone look and feel. If you want that, you should use the "Plone Classic Theme" or the "Sunburst Theme" as the "Skin Base" which you will be prompted for if you use the "expert" mode of the wizard.

collective.MockMailHost

Here is a product that will help you with integration testing email notifications generated from your custom Plone add-on.

DO NOT install this on your running Plone site. Simply use this from your tests. If you are running Plone 4, just add this egg to the [test] runner section of your buildout rather than to the [instance].

The product egg is available from pypi. The source is in the collective svn repository.

Enjoy and do remember to give me some feedback!

ImportError: <module 'setuptools.dist' from ...> has no 'check_packages' attribute

This error when you run buildout can be solved by upgrading setuptools as follows:

(plone3) $ easy_install -U setuptools

Products.PloneboardSubscription

Here is a product that will enable email notification for comments added to Ploneboard fora or conversations.

Once you install the product using the QuickInstaller, a Subscribe/Unsubscribe link is available when viewing a Forum or a Conversation. Once subscribed, an email notification is sent when a comment is added to the particular Forum or conversation.

The product egg is available from pypi. The source is in the collective svn repository.

Enjoy and do remember to give me some feedback!