[ZF] Foundation goals survey

[Roger Ineichen]

Hi Andreas

I never understood your motiviation about your 
negative comments if someone likes to improve
something or make progress in a good direction
with zope.

Can you explain the motivation behind your reaction?

Regards
Roger Ineichen


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: foundation [mailto:foundation-bounces at zope.org] Im Auftrag von
Andreas Jung
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. Januar 2014 13:42
> An: Godefroid Chapelle
> Cc: Zope Foundation
> Betreff: Re: [ZF] Foundation goals survey
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> Hi there,
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> 2014/1/21 Godefroid Chapelle <gotcha at bubblenet.be>
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> 	1) fund specific critical development efforts
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> Zope and its components are mature and devel. almost dead - it's legacy.
> Zero need to invest into a dead cow.
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> 	2) fund targeted Zope sprints
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> Zope sprint will only attract the "old" Zope faces...this won't work out
much.
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> 	3) fund a Zope Conference, either standalone or with another
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> see above
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> 	4) fund the creation of documentation showing Zope's capabilities
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> we failed a decade doing this- the time of Zope is over - waste of time...
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> 	5) encourage further porting of Zope onto Python 3
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> +1 - this is likely needed in the long term from the Plone community if
they want to
> move to Python 3.
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> 	6) cleanup and organize a Zope Consultant/Training resource
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> For a legacy technology?
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> 	7) commission and maintain a roster of Zope usergroups
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> The age of Zope user groups is dead - Python user groups yeah....but
> who would go to a Zope user group meeting? Yawn....I tried to revive a
local
> Zope user group some years ago...mission failed.
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> 	8) some kind of joint/merged effort with the Plone Foundation
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> That's a possible idea.
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> Sorry for my harsh but realistic views on the Zope world :-)
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> Andreas