[Zope-dev] Summary of today's developer meeting

[Chris McDonough]

On 3/2/10 2:50 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Chris McDonough<chrism at plope.com>  wrote:
>> On 3/2/10 1:09 PM, Martijn Faassen wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>>   >  Chris McDonough suggests to ponder further structuring of the ZTK into
>>>   >  separate sub-sets which might allow us to get better mileage regarding
>>>   >  maintenance and release management. He gave the example of the
>>>   >  "Bicycle Toolkit" (zope.component, zope.configuration,
>>>   >  zope.interface).
>>>
>>> -1
>>>
>>> We already have had issues with people changing things in ztk.cfg that
>>> broke things in zopeapp.cfg, because they don't want to test it. If we
>>> were to split things further, we'll see more breakage and more
>>> integration issues as people won't bother to test even less.
>>
>> I don't know who "people" are, and I don't know who "they" are, and I don't
>> know who broke what.
>>
>> The reward is increased potential for reuse outside the various Zope framework
>> stacks. It'd be a lot more palatable for people to see docs and a website for
>> a notional "Zope Form Generation" package that it would be for them to need to
>> extract such a thing from "the ZTK" wholesale. Splitting things across
>> functional boundaries like this would put a more reasonable end-user face on
>> zopey things I think. And maybe I wouldn't have to rewrite everything all the
>> time due to people freaking out about things named "zope.*" if they were better
>> organized into functional categories.
>
> I think you're confusing management and reuse (packaging including
> dependencies).  We all want people to be able to reuse parts of the
> ZTK.  There's broad agreement that we want to clean up dependencies.
>
> What's being advocated by many of us is that the ZTK be managed as a
> whole (for some definition of the whole that shrinks somewhat over
> time) to allow us to clean things up without causing breakage for
> people using the ZTK.
>
> No one should have to extract anything from the ZTK, because, AFAIK,
> the ZTK isn't a distribution.

You've both successfully beaten any initiative out of me again.  Well done. 
Full speed ahead.

- C