[ZF] manuel access

[Jim Fulton]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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> On 02/20/2013 09:49 AM, Benji York wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Chris Withers
>> <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On 20/02/2013 14:18, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>>> I think there should be a process for moving projects out of the
>>>> ZF.
>>>
>>> For this one, can I suggest the following lightweight process:
>>>
>>> Benji forks from the zopefoundation repo on GitHub.
>>>
>>> Someone from Zope Foundation (Stefan?) then does a commit in the
>>> zopefoundation GitHub repo that deletes all files on master and
>>> replaces with a README.txt pointing to Benji's fork.
>>>
>>> Work then happens in Benji's repo going forward, and he controls who
>>> has access to what.
>>
>> That sounds like a reasonable plan that, as far as I can tell,
>> accounts for the legalities involved.  I.e., the ZF has the code but
>> doesn't want it any more and I "fork" the project and continue
>> development.
>
> Go ahead with the fork.  We will vote to approve the separation at
> Thursday's board meeting.

Is approval required?  I don't think the ZF can prevent forks, given the ZPL.

OTOH, Jen's raised some valid concerns last August about the
representation of the ZF's interest in forks.  I'd like to see this clarified.

Jim

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