Hey Gary, [panarchist approach where we have people starting groups that could compete for attention]
I agree that it should be relatively easy to start "Zope" projects under the Zope umbrella. I agree that such projects could compete for attention and may the best one win. I think this is what's more or less already happening anyway, and I think it's great and it makes me appreciative of open source and Zope's component oriented culture that makes it possible. We can't just fork everything and branch off into our direction everywhere however; these projects will share a common codebase. This common codebase needs to be managed and have a direction, taking as inputs the needs of the projects using them. Gary Poster wrote: > Moreover, if you are willing to step up and declare that you are > starting something called the "Zope Framework" that manages a known > good set of code, and you hope other projects and people join in and > help, that makes sense to me. The open source mantra: "those who take responsibility get responsibility" I agree very much with that. It might be we are able to establish a "framework team" without elections by just picking out the bunch of people who are interested in this. Of course if we have a significant fraction of our community who disagrees with the authority to make decisions for larger changes in these components, we still have a problem. Two diverging branches of the same package doesn't seem to be a maintainable situation; at some point someone is going to make a release with a single version number. That's why I don't think I or anyone else can just "do it" without reaching a bit of wider consensus first. I think we have a transition problem to get from where we are now, where everybody and nobody is recognized, to a generally recognized group with some authority to make decisions where needed and provide guidance that should be taken into account. > With what I've seen on the Grok list, > you can do a great job as a project leader, generally being positive, > open, and motivating. Thanks! I have my flaws, but I try to be aware of them. :) Regards, Martijn _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org 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 )