Milos, Thank you, that is something I had thought of but probably not explored sufficiently. Amongst my many areas of ignorance I include contributing to open source projects - for instance I've never managed to get CVS working under windows. And I'm not entirely sure what it's meant to do! I have spent most of my working life as the only developer on user sites, so kicking off a project on my own seemed the thing to do. I have had a rake about on sourceforge and freshmeat for Zope 'abandonware', but I've been put off by their overwhelming 'technical' objectives (I like delivering to business users), not to mention their disdain for commenting their code! However in light of your suggestion I'll have another crack. If you don't mind me asking: how would I go about 'taking over' a likely project - an email to the owner maybe? And have you any 'abandoned but very useful' project in mind? Thanks Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Milos Prudek" <prudek@bvx.cz> To: "Jim McNeill" <jim_zope@yahoo.co.uk>; <zope@zope.org> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 8:35 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] What kind of Zope product would you like to see?
Jim McNeill wrote:
Sorry, this is going to contain several ignorant assumptions. I've decided to write a Zope product, and my next step is deciding what it should do. Having knocked around a few poor ideas, I thought this might be the right place to look for suggestions. Perhaps someone out there
As a learning experience, you could pick up a product that has not been maintained for a long time, and update it.
It would be easier than writing from scratch, and many people would be happy, because there are many abandoned but very useful products out
there.
Milos Prudek