[Zope] Common issue: Maintainance of Zope products

[Jerome Alet]

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:38:51AM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote:
> 
> Suggested solution for Zope Corp.:
>   Just look at Debian organisation:  There is a maintainer for every
>   package.  If a maintainer wants to stop maintainance (which seems to
>   be tha case for some of Zope products) he is obliged to declare to
>   orphan the package.  If there is no volunteer for the package in
>   question there is a Quality Assurance team which cares for bugs/
>   enhancements/new versions.
> ...
>   People who like to provide patches could send them to the BTS and
>   so they will not be lost in space for further development.

<offtopicflamewar mode="on">
Good idea, and if Debian maintainers forwarded bug reports to upstream 
authors this would be really perfect ! Unfortunately this is not 
the case very often...
</offtopicflamewar>

bye,

Jerome Alet