[Zope-PTK] CVS and development protocol (was Getting it all to work)

[Chris Withers]

Steve Alexander wrote:
> I have a more general question about CVS policy:
> 
>   Should the contents of the main trunk of the CVS be "always working",
>   as seems to be the practise with Mozilla?

I think this is the case with core Zope too and is a very sensible idea
:-)
It emilinates the need for extremely frequent releases during periods of
intense development...

> That is, changes that would lead to inconsistencies either get checked
> in on a branch, 

I think this is the best option, it allows other people to try out
'branch code' by checking it out from the repository but keeps the trunk
checkout in a state where it works for peopel who don't yet understand
the PTK but want to get invovled (like me ;-)

> I think it is really cool that DC is working on internal projects using
> PTK, but I'm concerned that a lot of the design discussion has gone into
> hiding inside DC.

here here ;-)

> For example, Shane has reported that DC have done some really useful
> stuff with the Wizards -- including error handling. This is great.
> However, I've not seen any discussion of the design for error handling
> in Wizards on the PTK wiki, nor on the list.

Is it in the CVS or is it really being hidden? ;-)

cheers,

Chris