3 Plone heros, week of Nov 14 05

We've recently had a big surge of activity and volunteerism in Ploneland. Last week saw 3 folks in particular that deserve recognition for their work.

The biggest props by far go to Wichert Akkerman, who is almost single-handedly conquering the most dire beast in Ploneland: admin stuff. He is migrating the computers for the various plone.org services, migrating the software and the site, setting up common authentication across services, installing Trac, etc. He gave a progress report last week and manages an infrastructure team page which shows that a lot of work is already closed. This is all work nobody else wanted to do and Wiggy is not just maintaining it, but making everything significantly better. He's the Plone Hero of the week.

Honorable mention goes to Rob Miller for his involvement in getting the Z3/Five stack into CMF 2. Specifically, Rob is working on backporting some stuff to CMF 1.6, in addition to his work on CMF 2 and Plone 2.x. Most importantly, Rob (and Whit) are taking the time to explain to other on the plone-dev mailing list what this all means.

Final mention goes to Sidnei da Silva for his work on multiple reindexing in Archetypes. It feels like people have complained about this for a thousand years, and the solution was always, "We'll fix this when we first make the hammer factory factory factory. Sidnei was convinced it wouldn't require some total rewrite of the universe, so he started writing tests, and dove into the code on a pretty crappy mission.

In fact, these three Plone Heros of the week are each recognized for doing some grungy, crummy work. Know of somebody doing Plone janitor tasks that deserves recognition? Comment on this article and lemme know.