On May 12, 2005, at 8:24 PM, Christian Heimes wrote: > Martijn Faassen wrote: > >> By the way, I don't think the people are automatically equal. I >> think the people who take responsibility and work on things are >> more important than the people who don't. The project should >> however be open and welcoming to people to join in and start >> contributing. This project should be an open meritocracy, like >> open source projects should be. >> > > You are right. I have the same opinion about meritocracy. In my > last email I was talking about some different. > > In my opionion it is very important that we are showing the rest of > the world that developers from Nuxeo, Infrae, Zope3 and Plone are > working hand in hand on the future of ECM. I agree with this. While the credit should go to individuals and companies, the result should be positioned for projects. I have in mind the poor Zope developer and customer who currently has 3+ frameworks to learn for Zope-based CMS products. IMO, showing that we're trying to work on that problem will attract attention, which will attract resources, which will help complete the Z3 ECMS, which will attract... This only works if there is a clear connection between the present and the future. To some extent, Zope 3 stretched this connection a bit too far, so people couldn't justify working on it in the present. Imagine the following announcement: "The next major release of CPS, Silva, and Plone will contain the MarketHypeComponent." It doesn't matter if this is one interface with one method with 3 lines of implementation that render an invisible HTML comment. The basic idea itself is galvanizing and simple for our target audience to understand and shows the projects are committed to sharing. --Paul
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