On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 16:29, Jamie Heilman wrote: > Chris McDonough wrote: > > Personally I prefer that someone who wants to introduce new features > > (even small ones, like API additions) into the core do it via their own > > committer privileges and thus sign up to maintain it for the rest of > > Yeah well... we've been over that before, I refuse to sign that > agreement. If that means my patches go ignored for eternity, so be > it, but it really seems like ZC is just cutting of their nose to spite > their face.
Can't help you much there. FWIW, I don't work for ZC anymore and I'm still not willing to sponsor the wholesale introduction of that code either, so I don't think it's necessarily a ZC problem. You could say that the community of people with CVS contributor access is cutting off their nose despite their faces, I guess that would make sense (with the usual caveats of time vs. benefit). > > The reason I think people don't jump on collector issues like this > > one is because of the natural "he who touched it last owns it" > > policy of the core code. I own enough of Zope 2 core code to make > > me uncomfortable at this point; owning more just isn't very > > attractive to me unless the upside is very up. > > Thats an unfortunate situation to be sure, I don't have any solutions > to offer as its not a technical issue. All I can say is that we know > the code doesn't care who touched it last, its going to break or work > regardless. The sooner the community accepts that, the sooner we can > get out of the rut and make some more progress. Actually it would be helpful if patches that fix bugs came in as small and easily-understood diffs. That would make the intent clearer and would make it more likely to be sponsorable (at least by me, anyway). Having high-quality, small, clear bugfix diffs waiting to apply on regular bugdays would help move us forward a lot, especially on maintenance branches. - C _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )