[Zope2-migration] Re: Zope3 name

[seb bacon]

R. David Murray wrote:
> And if there is an issue of ZC strategy (ie: ZC is going to
> switch in that shorter period), ZC can always give up all
> development/maintenance repsonsability for plain old Zope
> (POZ? <grin>) to the community that is still actively using
> it, whatever size that community turns out to be.

It is pretty important for community planning for ZC to give a 
pronouncement about their strategy about this.   Do ZC see Zope 3 as an 
essential new element in their business strategy?  Is the success of the 
Zope 3 brand important per se?  Is an EOL date for Z2 possible yet?  If, 
say, ZC anticipate moving all their clients to Z3EE (;-) within a year 
of release, I personally think the community should move to replace many 
of ZC's current Z2 activities within that timeframe.

Would ZC be happy to give up control of some of these activities?  If 
the community produced a Z2 fork, would there be any issues with the 
Zope brand, or linking to it from zope.org?  Or would ZC be happy to 
allow a community BDFL and continue hosting the CVS and the brand?

Difficult questions, I think.

seb