[Zope-dev] Maintainer of Zope 2 Windows builds?

[Andreas Jung]

--On 9. Oktober 2006 12:19:22 -0400 Tim Peters <tim at zope.com> wrote:
>
> Don't know about "should be", but it /is/ related ;-)  I had job-related
> reasons before to make at least minimal ongoing efforts toward keeping the
> Zope test suites happy on Windows, and that in turn meant I kept many full
> checkouts of various Zopes current, at least ran the tests routinely, gave
> real attention to discussions of possible Windows glitches, built Windows
> installers routinely, and so on.
>
> But I don't do anything related to web development anymore, and "bit rot"
> is setting in wrt my once-encyclopedic knowledge of the umpteen quirky
> build procedures for the umpteen versions of Windows Zope.  When, months
> ago, someone else volunteered to take over the Zope3 Windows builds, and
> actually followed up on it (yay!), I mentally resigned from these tasks.
>
> You (ZC, ZF, the community) want someone who /uses/ Zope on Windows to
> make Windows releases.  It was at best half nuts that I kept doing it
> after building & testing an installer once each N weeks became my only
> contact with Zope.

Thanks for your work on the windows builds in the past. We appreciate
your work very much.


>
>>> I built the last couple of Zope 2.9.x release, but my access to a
>>> Windows build environment is gone now...
>
>> Odd. I believe Tim built 2.9.4 because you could not?
>
> I don't remember, but it's possible.  I'm still willing to build an
> installer when there's no alternative, but it's long past time that was
> treated as a last-ditch fallback instead of "business as usual".

I'd like to see someone taking over the responsibility for the Windows
builds for the mid-term future. We have enough smart Windows users that 
could step in.

Thanks in advance,
Andreas
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