[Zope] - Website recommendation

[Michel Pelletier]

Kevin Dangoor wrote:

>         I was speaking with a coworker here yesterday, and he was saying
> that one advantage that perl has over python is CPAN. He said that there
> are tons of python modules out there, but you really have to go
> looking for them.
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>         I've seen a few Products that people have put together here
> and posted on their own websites. I think it would be good to take
> the contrib area on the Zope site seriously, so that it will grow
> into a repository as useful as CPAN.
>
>         To get things going in that direction requires the cooperation
> of everyone. If DC can keep the contrib area organized as the number
> of Products increases, and if people make sure they submit their
> Products to the site, we'll have the beginnings of CZAN :)

We are on this.  In fact, we are in this deep.  Our current scheme is
to make a complete open-source development product that uses
the concepts behind Eric Raymond's Trove spec to do archiving.  In
addition we have discussed working in some parts of Collector
(our tabula based bug tracker), Confra (the discussion board product)
and Mailman to work with lists.  I have done some work allready
on a Trove implimentation (called ZTrove) that we will be kicking
around.  We put this on hold till the beginning of Feb, when we
 can work with Ken.  This has also follows on the tails of the 'Zopespot'
discussion (a name I don't like, personally) which we want
to be the 'core' of all this functionality.

Please (everyone) brainstorm some ideas on this.  We don't want
to make this 'as useful as CPAN' we want to make this way far
out there more superior to CPAN in every aspect.  If we can especialy
do the Trove spec nicely, such supersites as The-Artist-Formerly-Known-
As-Sunsite (Metalab) and others have said they'd switch.  Immagine
that exposure!  And to say you helped write it, I think it can be
huge.

-Michel


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