[Zope3-dev] Re: access to download.zope.org/distribution

[Martijn Faassen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> On Apr 24, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> 
>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>
>>>> If not, would it be possible to move towards a community-run 
>>>> download.zope.org instead, so that we *can* give people access? We 
>>>> have a virtual server sitting around at Amaze that would be fine for 
>>>> this purpose, for instance.
>>> That would be nice.  It should be a dedicated server, to limit access 
>>> to other facilities and key management is likely to be an issue.
>>
>> Hm, one issue is that all committers now automatically get a login to 
>> place things in download.zope.org/distribution. That would be harder 
>> to accomplish with another server and would need to be figured out 
>> somehow. That would require at least some work on the part of ZC..
> 
> Right. That's the key-management issue I mentioned.

A positive aspect to this: Better try this on download.zope.org first, 
instead of going the whole way with SVN right away, which hopefully 
eventually also can become community maintained. So this would be a nice 
test case.

Regards,

Martijn