plonesocial.microblog 0.4

Simple microblogging in Plone

Introduction

Plonesocial.microblog is part of the plonesocial suite.

If you’re an integrator or end-user looking for a pre-integrated solution, you should install plonesocial.suite.

This package, plonesocial.microblog, provides a building block for Plone developers who want to create a custom social business solution in Plone. You normally wouldn’t want to modify this unless you know exactly what you’re doing.

plonesocial.microblog

Plonesocial.microblog provides a ‘native’ Plone microblogging solution that stores status updates in a performance-optimized site utility.

This component provides only the status update form and storage. To display the stored microblog messages, use plonesocial.activitystream in combination with plonesocial.microblog, or install the full plonesocial.suite.

Plonesocial.microblog provides a microblogging solution for Plone using core content types only, without any external dependencies. It does not require an external service and can be set up and run with a normal Plone buildout configuration.

The intention is to make this native solution as simple and as fast as possible. The current implementation can handle hundreds of new messages per second in a stock Plone installation on outdated hardware. It achieves this by using batched async commits (without using plone.app.async) and by not indexing status updates in ZCatalog. Instead, custom indexes on time, author and tags are provided.

bugs

Uninstalling either plonesocial.microblog or plonesocial.network removes both utilities, deleting all data.

TODO

Indexing @username mentions for integration with plonesocial.network.

Contributors

Guido Stevens, Author

Maurits van Rees

Changelog

0.4 (2012-10-09)

• .gitignores [gyst]

• update docs [gyst]

• fix dependency [gyst]

• reindent for better pep8 [gyst]

• s/_flush_queue/flush_queue/ [gyst]

• more styling [gyst]

• style status form [gyst]

• ignore compiled i18n stuff [gyst]

• document mentions todo [gyst]

• strip interpunction from tag index [gyst]

• refactor into re-usable status input provider [gyst]

• protect against site errors on (partial) uninstalls [gyst]

• GS name [gyst]

• implement hashtag filtering [gyst]

• pep8 [gyst]

• version bump to 0.4 [gyst]

0.3 (2012-05-21)

• update changelog [gyst]

• permission rename s/Read/View/ [gyst]

• use accesscontrols in portlets [gyst]

• disable accesscontrol in lowlevel unittests [gyst]

• add access controls [gyst]

• remove old plone.app.discussion compatibility view [gyst]

• set a default limit to make it hard to accidentally list() a 100k StatusUpdate generator [gyst]

• not using annotations anymore [gyst]

• internal btrees are protected, not private anymore [gyst]

• provide performance-optimized sorting/slicing accessors [gyst]

• remove unused imports [gyst]

• update doc [gyst]

• provide translations [gyst]

• switch from annotationstorage to a utility [gyst]

• clean up interface and method signatures [gyst]

• extract queuing functionality from base class to make life easier for future /self [gyst]

• implement memory queue with batched disk writes for maximal performance [gyst]

• user index accessors [gyst]

• document interface and namespace annotation key [gyst]

• provide test coverage [gyst]

• extract documentation by Maurits on using separate ZODB mount from plonesocial.activitystream [gyst]

• clean up views, remove plone.app.discussion dependency [gyst]

• refactor view logic WIP [gyst]

• close down some more methods [gyst]

• credit Maurits [gyst]

• refactor storage backend [gyst]

• fork form and viewlet from p.a.d. [gyst]

• Extract Maurits’ activity model from plonesocial.activitystream https://github.com/mauritsvanrees/plonesocial.activitystream [gyst]

• bump version [gyst]

0.2 (2012-05-04)

• Prepare plonesocial.microblog 0.2. [gyst]

• make portlet automatically assignable [gyst]

• async WIP [gyst]

• get rid of src dir indirection [gyst]

• remove unneccessary test [gyst]

• provide “compact” rendering option [gyst]

• remove statuses display, keep only form [gyst]

• fix duplicate commenting bug [gyst]

• unittests [gyst]

• tune doc [gyst]

• update documentation [gyst]

• cleanup [gyst]

• provide proper browserlayer isolation [gyst]

• anchor the microblog portlet to the SiteRoot singleton where we’re storing our status updates [gyst]

• customize comment rendering [gyst]

• fork p.a.discussion comments rendering template [gyst]

• render p.a.discussion comments as portlet, not as SiteRoot viewlet [gyst]

0.1 (unreleased)

• proof of concept [gyst]

• initial checkin from ZopeSkel [gyst]