[Zope] List of "current" and deprecated products?

[David Mitchell]

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> > Is a list of current and deprecated products held in some central
> > place?  I don't monitor the release of new products religiously, so
> > I'm using those products that are covered in (outdated?)
> > documentation rather than continually checking to see if there's
> > something newer & better around.
>
> There's clearly a gap.  This is an opportunity for someone.  They don't
> call it open source for nuthin!

Agree completely, Mark!  Unfortunately, this particular opportunity has the 
following characteristics:
- it'll always be at least slightly out of date, meaning the maintainer will 
get hit with the metaphorical stick on a regular basis by ungrateful people 
(e.g. "Why are you recommending X?  Don't you know Y is out?  Don't you know 
ANYTHING?...")
- in order to create such a list, you'd have to be across an enormously 
diverse group of products.  I doubt whether any one person has that breadth 
of knowledge, save possibly someone working at zope.com fielding obscure 
support or technical questions day after day
- to maintain the list, you'd have to have sufficient knowledge to not need 
to use it yourself.  In other words, you'd be providing a service that you 
yourself wouldn't need to use.  That's a BIG ask of just about anyone, unless 
they're getting paid to do it.

Hopefully someone from zope.com will think "What a great idea!" and take it 
on as a skunkworks project.  I can dream, can't I?

Regards

Dave M.