Re: [Framework-Team] random thought: identify the components that lack owners

2008-09-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Jon Stahl wrote: We were just chatting a bit here at ONE/Northwest global HQ and the following idea came up... Hanno pointed out to me a short while ago that a number of key core Plone components don't really have strong, active owners. e.g. Wicked, Users + Groups UI, etc.

RE: [Framework-Team] random thought: identify the components that lack owners

2008-09-26 Thread Jon Stahl
-Original Message- From: Wichert Akkerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wichert Akkerman Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 12:03 AM To: Jon Stahl Cc: framework-team@lists.plone.org Subject: Re: [Framework-Team] random thought: identify the components that lack owners

[Framework-Team] Re: random thought: identify the components that lack owners

2008-09-26 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Jon Stahl wrote: I'm wondering why this would be a task for the framework team? I'm open for suggestions about who else might take it on. I'd say the general development community. I think we have a bit of a problem in that we have no formally-designated leadership team for the codebase of

[Framework-Team] Re: random thought: identify the components that lack owners

2008-09-26 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Hi Jon. Jon Stahl wrote: However, there's really no definitive list of these that we can use to recruit more talent. I've just given you Trac admin rights, so you can have a look at https://dev.plone.org/plone/admin/ticket/components which is probably the best we have. I'm not quite sure what

[Framework-Team] Re: random thought: identify the components that lack owners

2008-09-26 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hanno Schlichting wrote: Tres Seaver wrote: Hmm, as an outsider, the FWT's job (reviewing and accepting PLIPs) is to do what a single BFDL would do in a project would have one. It might seem so from a certain point of view. That's however not

Re: [Framework-Team] Re: random thought: identify the components that lack owners

2008-09-26 Thread Andreas Zeidler
On Sep 26, 2008, at 8:05 PM, Hanno Schlichting wrote: I'd be very reluctant to make the framework team into a general code leadership team, though. That's explicitly *not* what it has been designed for and the way it is elected and the people are recruited doesn't give them a lot of authority

[Framework-Team] Re: random thought: identify the components that lack owners

2008-09-26 Thread Martin Aspeli
Tres Seaver wrote: It seems to me that not having continuity of architectural vision across releases, including the ability to remove broken / abandoned components, is a really dangerous place for Plone to be. Is this an actual or a hypothetical problem? I think there is architectural vision