Hey,

On Nov 29, 2007 8:43 PM, Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk> wrote:

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Martijn Faassen wrote:

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the work of collecting interesting Zope 2 products, contacting the authors (not strictly necessary but always a good thing to do) and checking them in, possibly cleaning things up here and there.

Well, I think is is fine for products where the original maintainer has "gone away" and the original repository is no longer available, but I think that having multiple forks on products with active repositories is asking for trouble.

Of course, so we should avoid this by trying to contact the original developer(s). I guess I wasn't clear about 'not strictly necessary'; I'd consider it less necessary if there has been no development for years, but of even then sending off an email makes sense. It might not make sense to wait indefinitely for an answer, however.

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I would have thought the key thing would be to build something like the cheeseshop but for zope products. But that's really one of the key things that zope.org should be, no?

Maybe http://products.zope.org would be a simpler thing to build and get running?

I think a Plone site should be able to run something like this, as plone.org does, right? Anyway, I don't think the technology is the most work here. We need someone to go through and create the content. Even a simple web-page listing interesting products and where to find them would already be tremendous progress. Content will be our challenge, let's not worry about technology too much, which should be in good hands.

Yes, but we need a way to tell people "this is a well mantained product" or "this is just a product, we don't know if it will be updated" and some different situations in the middle. Maybe a tagging system on the products should be enough.

Regards,

Martijn

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