Let's work on making ZODB better!

Leader: Tim Peters

Jim Fulton will present the ZODB architecture as a basis for work. This will be a good opportunity to learn about many of the nitty-gritty details of ZODB.

There are many things we could work on, including:

• Documentation
• Adding interfaces (what exactly are the public APIs? it's become muddy)
• Bug fixes
• Code cleanup
• Saner tests

• Multi-database support, http://zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/MultiDatabases

• Savepoints
• Getting rid of versions
• Database iteration (e.g., iterate over all the objects of class Foo; there's no efficient way to do this now, especially when using ZEO)

• Conflict resolution redesign. Possiblities: make it optional, make it pluggable, use a registry of class->resolution code instead of methods, get it off the ZEO server?

Note that to be able to make code contributions, you must be a Zope contributor: http://dev.zope.org/Subversion Note that you don't have to be a Zope user to be a Zope contributor. You don't have to be a Zope contributor either to participate in working out (and writing up) proposals for things ZODB could/should be doing better.

If you plan to participate, please put your name below, and, if you won't be there all 4 days, indicate which days you plan to be there.

Participants:

• Tim Peters (Sat, Sun, Mon, Tue)
• Christian Theune (All days)

If you don't sign up, you can still come and participate. The sign up is to give us an idea who will be there.

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