[Zope-dev] List of packages in the ZTK

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey,

Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
[snip]
> I still think that starting from a very small list, allowing zope committers to
> add packages making an explicit commitment to maintain them would give us a
> better overview of what does "ZTK" mean for each of us.

I'm of the opposite opinion; let's start with a moderately big list, 
more or less what was in Zope 3, but with anything ZMI related 
definitely planned for removal (and there's some other stuff).

This is to recognize the reality that real apps right now depend on a 
*lot* of these packages. A lot of this code is not actually being used, 
which is why we do the refactoring, but I'd like to shrink gradually, 
instead of grow from a small core. This is because right now we'll have 
an easier time shrinking stuff down by fairly mechanical reasoning 
without involving a lot of people.

A growing strategy that determines who is interested in maintaining a 
package sounds like it needs a lot of communication from a lot of 
people. In general it'd be good to avoid that.. (I can imagine however 
we could automate this partially by digging through SVN logs - that 
information might be interesting)

Regards,

Martijn