[Zope] Traceback? Codechange!

[Martijn Pieters]

On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 04:14:19PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
> Martijn Pieters wrote:
> > > > Do I have to copy this message to the collector and wait for
> > > > a couple of months or can we do it instantly? ;-)
> > 
> > Do you still experience the Collector as black hole? Could you report this to
> > Tres Seaver, the person currently monitoring the COllector and cleaning it
> > out? Thanks!
> 
> It HAS got a lot better since Tres started, but there's still a load of
> cruft in there; stuff that's not completed but is so old that it's now
> irrelevant.
> 
> A small point, could all searches/browsing/etc all be sorted in reverse
> date order?

I don't think we are going to make any changes to the collector anymore, see
below.

> That way I wouldn't have to trudge through a lot of Zope 1.x problems
> just to get to the stuff that's relevant.
> 
> On a more radical thought, there was talk a while back of ditching the
> collector in favour of a Tracker, whatever happened to that plan?

This is on Ethan's To-Do list at:

  http://www.zope.org/Tracker/9

and because it is on his list, there is no use in maintaining the old
Collector's behaviour.

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Martijn Pieters
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