[Zope-dev] Maintainer position for the Zope Windows builds vacant

[Jim Fulton]

My hope is that, starting with Zope 2.9, the Zope 2 releases will,
like the Zope 3 releases, be built with zpkg.  zpkg is a system for
assembling components (basically packages) based on dependency information
and automatically creating python distutils-based distributions.  This
approach has some advantages and disadvantages:

+ Much more of the process is automated,

+ Binary releases can be built automaticall

- The releases include just Zope

- The binary releases install into Python -- meaning that only one
   release of Zope can be installed for a given Python release.

My thought for windows is that we'd provide a *simple* combined installer
that installs Python and Zope by invoking separate Python and Zope installers.

This won't affect Zope 2.8 and earlier versions of Zope 2.

Jim


Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Christian Theune, the current maintainer of the windows builds, 
> announced to step down as maintainer. This means that this position is 
> vacant.
> 
> So this is your chance to become famous :-)
> 
> To be honest, doing Zope releases is a bit of work and not always fun 
> but it is work that has to be done by someone. So if you are interested 
> and if you have the resources, raise your finger.
> 
> Since new Zope 2 releases are scheduled for October I would like to see 
> this position filled asap.  I will definitely continue on the source 
> releases but I have not enough Windows know-how to do it myself. Since 
> there are lot of *serious* Zope-on-Windows users I do expect that 
> someone takes over this great job.
> 
> Having no volunteer for the Windows builds would mean that only source 
> code releases would be available in the future. I'm fine with that but 
> possibly not all Zope-on-Windows users...so if you depend on 
> Zope-on-Windows you should do something for your dependency to  be 
> fulfilled.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrea
> s
> 
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