[Zope-PTK] FYI: Sad news for PTK

[Chris McDonough]

Luckily, we have another Mike Pelletier, and he's doing it.

Alexander Schonfeld wrote:
> 
> Also, I am curious who is maintaining the ZCatalog stuff now?
> 
> Hope everything works out okay for Mike.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alex.
> 
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:51:58 -0400
> Paul Everitt <Paul@digicool.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Howdy sports fans.  I'm a bit overdue on delivering this news.
> >
> > Many of you know that Mike Pelletier has been the primary developer and
> > owner of PTK.  As I reported last week, Mike had to take some time off
> > to take care of some family matters.  Unfortunately for all of us, the
> > time away needs to be more permanent.
> >
> > First, I'd like to give Mike a big round of applause for taking charge
> > of the PTK and crafting it into something truly engaging for the Zope
> > community.  Mike has been wonderful to work with and has really shown a
> > great touch in being engaged on this project and staying ahead of bugs
> > and features.  I wish him the best of luck in his next step.
> >
> > However, this puts the PTK in a bad spot.  We at Digital Creations are
> > growing rapidly, but we're still resource starved for community projects
> > like this.  Bluntly stated, the prognosis in the very near term isn't
> > good for us to be the sole developer of the PTK.
> >
> > Thus, there's a clear choice at hand:
> >
> >   o PTK cools off for some period of time.
> >
> >   o PTK becomes an Open Source _development_ project, with many people
> > getting checkin authority.
> >
> > I'll leave the commentary out for this first round and open up the floor
> > for comments.
> >
> > --Paul
> >
> > Paul Everitt       Digital Creations
> > paul@digicool.com  540.371.6909
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Chris McDonough
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