"T. Kim Nguyen" <[email protected]> writes: > I'm sure there would be wide support for allowing existing Poi on > plone.org to continue being used, and not allowing new Poi to be > created on plone.org. > > If Poi eventually are to be shut off entirely on plone.org then it > would be good to have a moderately decent export / import mechanism; I > have no idea if there is such a thing today, however.
Export/import is a great idea and I think you should do it! :-) But seriously, I'm just addressing the, IMO, erroneous conflation of a community making smart decisions of where to put its energy with coercion. I have more to say on the possibility of sunsetting Poi but since it's not proposed, I'll wait. Ross > On Feb 9, 2012, at 6:33 PM, Ross Patterson wrote: > >> Andreas Jung <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Sorry guys but once again: you can not force a project to move to >>> Github (sources and trackers) without explicit agreement of the >>> package owner or current package maintainer - at least not >>> for active packages where let's say the issue tracker is actively >>> used (last activity happened within the last X months). >> >> We can and should be smart about the software we commit ourselves to >> maintain. Our community time, energy and ingenuity is valuable and >> should be focused on making a better CMS, not supporting and maintaining >> a very old, and passable but not terribly good issue tracker. Our >> users' time, energy, and experience is also very valuable and should be >> cared for when they report problems with or request features of the >> add-ons they use. It is not only appropriate, but important for all of >> this to be taken into account when asking the kind of questions being >> asked here. It is also appropriate and important to be asking these >> kinds of questions. >> >> Ros >> >>> Nathan Van Gheem wrote: >>>> I wouldn't need them exported. We could just close them to new >>>> submissions for a period before completely shutting em down. >>>> >>>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Jon Stahl >>>> <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:41 PM, derek >>>> <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>>> On Feb 8, 3:48 pm, Nathan Van Gheem >>>>> <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>>>> I still use them but would rather not. If you put a deprecation >>>> date up, >>>>>> it'd help force me to more more of my packages to github and >>>> startup the >>>>>> tracker there also. >>>>>> >>>>>> +1 for github hosted. Very nice to have it coupled with the code >>>> repo. >>>>> >>>>> Yeah, I've happily used POI for years, but I'll even more happily >>>>> use github. I have no attachment to POI (though I thank the >>>>> authors for the use I've had). >>>> >>>> Thanks, Derek and Nathan. A follow-up, if I may... if POI trackers >>>> were gracefully deprecated, would you need to be able to get an >>>> export of tickets or are there few enough that you could deal with >>>> it manually? >>>> >>>> :jon _______________________________________________ >>>> Product-Developers mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> https://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/plone-product-developers >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ Product-Developers >>>> mailing list [email protected] >>>> https://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/plone-product-developers >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ZOPYX Limited | zopyx group >>> Charlottenstr. 37/1 | The full-service network for Zope & Plone >>> D-72070 Tübingen | Produce & Publish >>> www.zopyx.com | www.produce-and-publish.com >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> E-Publishing, Python, Zope & Plone development, Consulting >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Product-Developers mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/plone-product-developers _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/plone-product-developers
