[ZDP] Modularizing Zope (Was [ZDP] DC's Zope Documentation Plan)

[Tom Deprez]

Hi Paul,

Sorry, I don't have muck knowledge about CVS, so I think I'm not in the
position to give you Pro's and Con's. I hope others on the ZDP can.

Tom.


At 09:09 23/02/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>>Kamon wrote:
>>> To be more precise, lotus.com and ibm.com feature what they call Zones,
>>> which are more Technology/Horizontal driven, like Java | Linux | Web
>>> Architecture | XML.
>>> We can have Zones or Areas but in the Constituency/Target
>>> audience/Transversal sense.
>>
>>At IPC8, I asked what we could do to better "work in a fishbowl".  One
>>of the suggestions was to break the code into modules, which could
>>selectively include outside developers.
>>
>>I have a decision point that I'd like the ZDP's reaction on related to
>>this:
>>
>>"Should Digital Creations move the Zope CVS repository to SourceForge?"
>>
>>Background: We do CVS by rdist-ing an internal repository to
>>cvs.zope.org for most projects.  Things like PTK have write access by
>>external people, but can't do branches as long as the repository
>>housekeeping files are inside Digital Creations.  More importantly, we
>>find we can't devote the time necessary to staying ahead of CVS, SSH,
>>etc.
>>
>>A proposal has been floated here to move our repository to SourceForge. 
>>We would also use it as an opportunity to break the Zope code into
>>separately-released packages such as zope-dtml, zope-zodb, etc.  The
>>mailing lists might be re-organized accordingly.  At select points we'd
>>wrap everything together as a Zope release.
>>
>>There are strong benefits.  Sourceforge is on a fast link, presumably
>>with fast machines behind it.  They have a system where people can get
>>their SSH accounts setup and module owners can include developers, all
>>without a sysadmin getting involved.
>>
>>The major downside is brand.  We'd be turning part of our developer
>>community brand over to another entity.  Some have argued that this
>>would reflect poorly.
>>
>>Let me know what you think, both pros and cons.
>>
>>--Paul
>>
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