[Zope-dev] direction

[Leonardo Rochael Almeida]

Hi Hanno,

First of all, thank you very much for all you hard work, specially
with the security issues.

I noticed you've been very busy doing clean-up on the Zope2 code base
in the last few hours. As someone who has recently spent a lot of time
porting forward a large and mission-critical code base, ERP5, from
Zope 2.8 to Zope 2.12, I'm a little confused about the direction that
you're moving, and how much effort that could mean for future porting
efforts for Nexedi.

Now I don't want to provide any stop energy, and I understand that
discussing ideas on Zope-dev can sometimes lead to them being dragged
into bike-shed designing contests, rather than being implemented, so I
fully appreciate you wanting to do more than to talk. And specially
appreciated the effort you spent in the past spinning many components
out of the Zope2 code base and into optional components, making it all
a lot more maintainable.

But can you explain to us a little of how you expect Zope2 to behave
with the changes you're doing? It would be nice to have a record on
the mailing list that we can point to so that people who have
difficulties porting their software in the future can understand how
to proceed.

Thanks in advance,

Leo