[ZF] Zope Development Process

[Stephan Richter]

On Monday 25 September 2006 17:44, Jim Fulton wrote:
> I wonder what projects there should be.  Do we need want many
> projects?  Some obvious projects are Zope 2, Zope 3, and ZODB.  What
> about smaller efforts?  Should ZConfig be a separate project?  If not,
> what project does it fall under.  It is used by all 3 of Zope 2, Zope
> 3, and ZODB.  What about a project like zc.buildout?  Should the
> repsository contain code that doesn't fit under any project?  For
> example, zc.ngi is an experimental testable networking library that I
> plan to use in ZEO someday.  Should that be in the repository?  Should
> it be a project? Should the packages in the zc (or z3c or lovely)
> namespaces be their own projects? Should each namespace be a project?

I think that for certain namespaces, like lovely and z3c should be their own 
projects. Most packages in those namespaces are really small and a project 
per package would be tremendous overkill. If a package in a namespace takes 
off, a separate project can be created for this particular package any time.

I think it would be sensible that Zope Corp. forms manages the zc namespace 
project and Lovely Systems the lovely namespace. The companies could be 
responsible for electing the project manager/lead. This lead clearly would 
*not* need to be an employee of the respective company.

I think a similar approach could be taken for the z3c namespace. The group of 
people contributing to the namespace is pretty well defined and I think those 
developers could come up with an initial project lead.

In general, I would love to see pretty much all Zope related packages live in 
the ZF repository. The reasons are obvious and reach from licensing to 
visibility.

One issue, that you alluded to, is how a package can move from one project to 
another. For example, I would like to move z3c.baseregistry into the core and 
thus the next release. Do we need process for this? Or can this be done 
informally?

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
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