[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Reunite Zope 2 and Zope 3 in the source code repository

[Jim Fulton]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Stephan Richter wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday 23 November 2005 10:16, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>>
>>> Sounds crazy, I know. But I'm serious. Looking for your comments at:
>>> http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/ReuniteZope2AndZope3InTheSourceCodeRepository
>>
>>
>> I am -1. If I could I would veto this proposal. Here is why:
>>
>> To be totally honest, I really, really don't care about Zope 2!
> 
> 
> I'll debate with you this reason. I don't think that this changes your 
> dislike of merging the repositories and this argument is on a side-track 
> and not intended to convince you of this.
> 
> What my point is here is that your attitude about Zope 2 is wrong: as a 
> pure-play Zope 3 developer you *should* care about Zope 2.
> 
> Some of us have been doing quite a bit of work of bringing Zope 3 to the 
> Zope 2 world. I believe that at least partially as a result of this, 
> Zope 3 is getting a lot more attention from Zope 2 developers. I think 
> that this attention is extremely valuable to the Zope 3 project. There 
> is an awful lot of experience, skills and knowledge in the Zope 2 world 
> that is immensely valuable to Zope 3 developers. We *don't* have a full 
> respresentation of these extremely valuable perspectives in the Zope 3 
> development community right now.
> 
> If Zope 2 developers get the impression that core Zope 3 developers 
> don't give a shit about Zope 2, they may not be so likely to actually 
> come on board. That would be a disastrous development indeed. We really 
> need an increased connection between the Zope 2 world and the Zope 3 world.

+100

Jim

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