[ZF] Official Packages / ZSCP / Development process

[Tres Seaver]

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Christian Theune wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I lost this thread in my mail and it kind of stopped silently,
> unfortunately.
> 
> I skimmed over the document of the ZSCP and wonder whether this is a
> coordinated active effort endorsed by the ZF. Is it?

According to the minutes[1], and to my memory since May, the board has
never discussed that document.

> If yes, I'll just shut up and wait what happens. The goals are not
> directly my goals and it still seems overdesigned to me and I'd be
> afraid to loose huge amounts of time with this.
> 
> If not, I'd wonder when we can start working on the development process
> issues (in a lightweight way).

I believe that the process as documented in the ZCSP is too heavy:  it
ignores the way that things normally get accomplished in an open source
community, i.e. via somebody "scratching his own itch" first.  The
process tries to impose controls which will deflate such efforts.

The model of "rough consensus and running code" used by the IETF[2] is
far more to my taste than a more rigid process.  I personally wouldn't
bother to contribute further if I had to jump through such hoops.



[1] http://foundation.zope.org/minutes
[2] http://www.ietf.org/tao.html#rfc.section.3


Tres.
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