[ZF] Re: [Zope3-dev] Official Zope packages
Benji York
benji at zope.com
Wed Jul 25 11:21:33 EDT 2007
Jim Fulton wrote:
> IMO, it is not a good goal to find maintainers for projects in the
> repository just because they're there. It might be a good goal to:
>
> - Move projects out of the respository or to an unmaintained section
> of the respository when they cease to be maintained.
>
> - It might also be useful to create a separate area of the repository
> for exploratory projects.
>
> For me, there are two criteria for decoding what to work on:
>
> - They help or interest me (or ZC) directly,
>
> - They are important for furthering the health of the community or
> Zope brand.
Hmm, the above sound like things PyPI can/could address. Maybe we
shouldn't treat svn.zope.org as the front door, but instead as the
storage shed.
PyPI can become the way people do things like ask: what are the actively
maintained zope.* packages, what do they do, and who works on them.
--
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation
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