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I have this driving feeling that I should switch to a different weblog software. I'm currenly using COREBlog which sits on top of Zope and is written in Python. At the time I chose it I was totally fascinated by the Z Object Programming Environment and had to use it. COREBlog looked like the most promising Zope weblog to hack on and it was really easy to get working. After looking at the COREBlog code for a while, I'm really unhappy with the quality of the code. Since I don't do anything Zope, or even web, for work I never really got into programming under Zope.

Recently I've been tracking Quills development. It's another Zope weblog built on top of Plone. I tried it out and I'm able to migrate my weblog to that, but I still don't feel like it's the right solution. The Zope world is starting a large transition from Zope 2 to Zope 3. Zope 3 looks promising, but not much is usable there and I don't want to write something from scratch.

I think I want to stay with a Python-based solution, but I'll probably drop Zope. I like writing entries in reStructured Text so I want to keep that. I also like the layout of COREBlog, but I know the colors suck. I also need support for multiple posters and a through the web management interface. I don't think Heather will appreciate a command line interface. I would like to avoid something that depends on MySQL or PostgreSQL since I don't want to be a database administrator. It also has to be free as in speech and beer and runs on Linux. I also need a migration path from COREBlog.

Suggestions are welcome.