[Zope-Coders] Who owns the ZCatalog package?

[Brian Lloyd]

> I posted the following patch to Zope-Dev.
> 
> It fixes a bad interaction between some ZCatalog queries and dtml-in. 
> Sometimes, dtml-in only iterates through a part of the results.
> 
> The problem is that Catalog.py is giving a LazyCat instance the wrong 
> length for a concatenation of sequences; it is giving the number of 
> sequences rather than the sum of the lengths of the sequences.
> 
> Can I just check this in, or do I need to get approval from the owner of 
> the ZCatalog package?

Andreas Jung (andreas@zope.com) is the de facto Catalog bubba 
right now, so make sure to run the changes by him.

The committer / CVS info area on dev.zope.org has a page that 
deals with this from a high level:

http://dev.zope.org/CVS/RepositoryProjects

...but doesn't note areas of responsibility within the large-grained
projects. We should put up (and keep up to date) a page that notes 
who the bubba is for various aspects of the code.

Also, when you go to check this in, we need to make sure that the 
fix goes in the trunk as well as the 2.4 branch (Zope-2_4-branch),
and that the CHANGES.txt in the 2.4 branch is updated.

I need to make sure that something on the dev site deals with this 
as well. I think of it as a "checkin checklist" that should cover:

  - what the next planned bug fix release is

  - what the current bug-fix release branch is (where all bug 
    fixes, but not new features, should be checked in)

  - what the next planned feature release is

  - what the correct branch is to check in both bug fixes and 
    new features

  - who to ask if its not clear what to do

I'll try to make some progress on these today.


Brian Lloyd        brian@zope.com          
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