[Z3lab] hosting options

Paul Everitt paul at zope-europe.org
Fri May 13 18:32:20 CEST 2005


On May 13, 2005, at 6:13 PM, Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote:

> Dario Lopez-Kästen wrote:
>
>
>> Florent Guillaume wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Hi, I've been abroad the last few days, so couldn't contribute
>>> earlier to this flamewar ;)
>>>
>>
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> I am sure that if not Codespeak works out (i.e. it cannot run zope or
>> whatever) we probably can host things at Chalmers.
>>
>> I use Plone, Jean-Marc uses CPS, so we'd be almost "neutral" in that
>> respect (sorry Martijn, we don't use Silva - yet, at least ;-).
>>
>> In any event, I agree with the implied opinion that bootstrapping
>> should be a quick phase, and that "branding" ECM as vendor neutral is
>> important.
>>
>> So I propose we quickly move on to defining the base requirements  
>> that
>> are needed by the hosting and prioritise them, find out whether
>> codespeak will satisfy the main requirements or if we need to find
>> alternatives.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> /dario
>>
>>
>
> I agree with Florent, the Trac ticket manager is invaluable for
> communicating and for tracking issues, even if it not perfect. What is
> then needed is a site to obtain latest updates, not just about the  
> code
> but about documentation, drafts, ideas, etc. The wiki is not adapted
> because it easily becomes a navigation mess.

FWIW, I have found that Trac is missing the one feature Roundup has  
that I like the most: mail-in of issue responses and dialog as part  
of issue history.  ZEA actually funded Edgewall to add this to Trac,  
though they added it in a temporary fashion.

In what ways is Trac's issue tracking superior to Roundup, the system  
used at Codespeak (and numerous other places)?  Even the Edgewall  
people admit the current Trac architecture isn't geared for project  
and issue management (though the next rewrite should improve this).

> Setting up such a facility is a lot of job and a lot of  
> responsibility,
> so whomever takes that responsibility first should get the credit for
> it. Anyone who has the ressources is welcome to step forward and  
> provide
> something better...

Yes.  Thus, let's at least *acknowledge* that Philipp did this very  
thing almost a year ago and announced it to the world:

   http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-dev/2004-July/011499.html

"""
In the past few weeks, Martijn Faassen and I have started such a project
at codespeak, the "z3 base". We hope that this will become *the*
development home for third party packages for Zope3. We will be happy to
host any Zope3-related OpenSource project and welcome all kinds of
contributions. Martijn's Five and Sidnei's sqlos are already being
actively developed there and there is more to come.
"""

Acting as if his contribution doesn't count, simply because he isn't  
using a system called Trac that none of us were committed to a month  
ago, isn't giving his effort the right support, IMO.

--Paul



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