Chris McDonough wrote:

> We can ameliorate the situation in a few ways:
>
> - We can reduce the number of distributions.
>
> - We can make each current Zope package distribution independently useful.
>
> My suggestion is that we do the former first in order to communicate *current
> intent* (the "state of reality right now").  We can do the latter after this in
> pieces, hopefully aided by some new developers we've picked up by making it
> easier to find useful stuff.

In order for your plan to work I think you'd need two things ideally:

* remove a lot of the released packages from pypi. This is a no-go.
People depend on these in a massive way.