there is currently a heaty and controversial debate at
http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/ExtendedDTMLSorting
Cool... that's what it's there for. Also probably means the right decision will be reached...
There seems to be danger that this great support through a community member will have a fate similar to Tino's "in" patch:
What has happened to that?
It seems to me that DC is far too reluctant to accept contributions to Zope from community members:
* patches fixing bugs * patches implementing missing but useful features
Nah, they just wanna have confidence in Zope so that everyone else can have confidence in it. It's a shame if people see that as reluctance, but does DC really strike you as a group not interested in the community? I think DC's VC (acronym overload ;-) based open sourcing Zope on levereging the community in exactly this way so I'm sure it's not like that...
* bug fixing patches should always be accepted unless the patch is not easily understandable.
Well, that's a tough definition. Maybe DC's definition of 'understandable' is different, given they diudn't write the patches ;-)
* feature patches should be accepted, if it makes Zope more consistent (as the upcoming "urlparam_expr" patch)
What a horrible name :-( How does that make Zope more consistent?
or easier to use (as Oleg's sorting patch or Tino's in patch).
You know I agree with that ;-)
I invested considerable time to file several important ZCatalog bug reports with patches into the collector for Zope 2.1.6, just to see them ignored in all versions of Zope 2.2. Only for Zope 2.3.1, the issues have been addressed.
Hmmm, that's a little surprising. Are you sure your patches solved the problem in the way that would bring most long term good? I much prefer a ZCatalog which now has unit tests and timing measurements...
I still advice people to file bug reports and patches into the Collector, but personnaly I already start to think whether it is worth the effort....
Hmmm... I'd like to anyone get the kindof response you do from the collector from someone like Microsoft or Oracle ;-) cheers, Chris (who doesn't like all this DC bashing on the lists given how much easier they make my life!)