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)
- Jim Fulton (perhaps intermittently)
- Cameron Laird: will likely arrive late Saturday afternoon; is willing to work on documentation; and has lots of interest both in Zope and in OODBMSs generally.
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.
ChrisMcDonough says
Other minor things:
- - Make ZEO server write a pidfile so we can rotate its logs by sending an appropriate
- signal.
- making Tim's life a nightmare. But Tim thinks this is
pretty hopeless
- (useful for synchronization).