On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Martijn Faassen <faassen@startifact.com> wrote:
Last december Hanno made progress on the ZTK's dependency structure, removing a lot of dependencies on packages. In his enthusiasm, he unilaterally just removed all those suddenly-unneeded (by him!) packages from the ZTK, without discussion.
My actions last December had an unfortunate effect. I assumed a common understanding of what the ZTK should be and tried to work towards that, but it turned out that understanding wasn't shared after all. I should have known better and discussed things before taking any actions. For not discussing things properly I apologize. In didn't see any chance of making any progress during the heated debate following those events, so I decided to let things cool off and let everyone work on their own for a while.
No, I cannot present it less acrimoniously. The lack of commitment and trust displayed back then still hurts me too much for that.
Martijn and me tried to discuss this off-list. I think at this stage there's no way to solve our disagreement. I'd rather not continue any of this in public, as I don't see how this would have any constructive effect. The Zope community asked Christophe, Jan-Wijbrand and me to act as a release team for the ZTK and we started working on this task. I intend to continue to work in this group. If the Zope community feels I'm not qualified for the job or the other two team members don't want to work with me, I'll happily step down. Hanno