Aloha, --- "Tille, Andreas" <TilleA@rki.de> wrote: ...
This is not a good reputation for Zope if users face this problem.
Seconded...I find it annoying, anyhow! I recall a recent thread on this - I think the general response was something like "great idea, go ahead and do it..." ;-) At the least, though, this would seem useful:
If a maintainer wants to stop maintainance (which seems to be tha case for some of Zope products) he is obliged to declare to orphan the package. If there is no volunteer for the package in question there is a Quality Assurance team which cares for bugs/ enhancements/new versions.
...and there could be an option to 'kill it publicly' if no one wanted to take it on - IMO this would be better than a 'silent death' that the majority never hears about until trying to find, use, update, etc. some product or other that's legally but not publicly dead. Perhaps a simpler place to start than a whole Debian-style BTS is a 'dead or alive' status flag on listed products (and an obvious link to a list of products at zope.org...). cheers, John S. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com