[Zope-dev] Question: circumventing the full fishbowl for small changes...?

[Jon Franz]

Hello,
	I've reviewed the introduction to the fishbowl process 
and its description of creating a project proposal wiki 
document and such, and the full process a project should 
take.  However, I have 2 very small but useful additions 
to Zope I wish to make.  Both additions are already available 
for download on zope.org - and have been tested extensively.  
However, the larger of the two changes is perhaps 80 lines of 
code.  It seems cumbersome, to me at least, to go through 
this whole process of "Inception, Elaboration, Construction, 
and Transition" for small code snippets which are already 
created and tested... So, my question is, could a side-line 
process be created for the integration of already existent, 
tested, and somewhat small, code changes?  My fear, which I 
have already seen come to life through use of the collector, 
is that without such a lightwieght process for occasional 
small changes - many already existent (and many future) small
 changes to Zope will be bypassed rather then integrated due 
to the time needed to go through all stages of the process.  
I don't have all the answers, and I know this isn't a common 
problem, but it is something I know I'm experiencing right 
now at this second...

Please keep in mind that I am not trying to be critical,
nor am I attempting to change the fishbowl process for normal
projects - I only wish a parallel process to exist for very
small changes, so that the changes are not forgotten or passed
up.

~  Jonathan M. Franz ~ Senior Developer/Technical Leader  ~
~ SW-Dev Division, Springdale, Ohio Office ~ 513.618.2248 ~ 
~ OneNet Communications (A USNet/MDM Company) www.one.net ~


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From: Brian Lloyd <Brian@digicool.com>
To: "'zope-announce@zope.org'" <zope-announce@zope.org>,
"'zope@zope.org'"
<zope@zope.org>,
"'zope-dev@zope.org'" <zope-dev@zope.org>
Subject: [Zope-dev] Announcing dev.zope.org
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:36:28 -0400

Hello all,

For some time now, it has been a goal of ours to open up 
the Zope development process. Some of you may have heard 
me promise this at the Zope track back in January. Well, 
it took a little longer than I had hoped it would, but 
I'm happy to announce an important step in making that 
a reality: http://dev.zope.org.

dev.zope.org is the place for discovering, initiating, 
and contributing to work on the core Zope platform and 
related Zope technologies. You can think of it as the 
rough equivalent of what Mozilla.org is to Mozilla.

Why has it taken so long? Because there is much more to 
"opening the development process" than simply doling out 
CVS access. Evolving a relatively large and complex 
piece of software like Zope is a non-trivial task, and 
doing it in a highly distributed environment is harder 
still. The dev.zope.org site will provide the background 
materials and tools to ensure that work on Zope is 
consistent in organization and execution. It will also 
help those new to Zope development to come up to speed 
and get involved quickly.

There is still plenty to do be done on the site, but it 
is done enough to start using it so I want to start 
learning by doing. If you have questions or comments on 
the dev site, please send them to me at brian@digicool.com 
and CC the zope-dev list (which is where I expect traffic 
related to dev.zope.org should go in the near term).


Brian Lloyd        brian@digicool.com
Software Engineer  540.371.6909              
Digital Creations  http://www.digicool.com 
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