Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-28 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 6/28/06, Andrew Sawyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: point. Write the 'Zope product' management software and expose it as a service - put it on the site. [...] No one said bag the collectors. Rewrite http://www.zope.org/Collectors/ to collectors.zope.org and that's done. No writing is gonna

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-28 Thread Chris McDonough
On Jun 28, 2006, at 2:40 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote: On 6/28/06, Andrew Sawyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: point. Write the 'Zope product' management software and expose it as a service - put it on the site. [...] No one said bag the collectors. Rewrite http://www.zope.org/ Collectors/ to

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-28 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 6/28/06, Chris McDonough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He meant use an Apache rewrite rule, I think. Oh. My excuses in that case. -- Lennart Regebro, Nuxeo http://www.nuxeo.com/ CPS Content Management http://www.cps-project.org/ ___ Zope

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-28 Thread Dieter Maurer
Andrew Sawyers wrote at 2006-6-27 22:03 -0400: ... Nearly everyone uses Google to find anything they care about anyhow. I use Google because its search is faster than the one on zope.org *BUT* I restrict it with site:zope.org. Otherwise, I get a few hundred thousand hits more. Sure, they

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-27 Thread Chris Withers
David H wrote: This is sounding more bizzare with each day and it doesnt feel good. Zope cant maintain a friggin web site? Isnt that rich. Hey David, Cool, thanks so much for volunteering to provide all the resources, coders and support staff to look after a 10,000 user site with all the

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-27 Thread David H
Chris Withers wrote: David H wrote: This is sounding more bizzare with each day and it doesnt feel good. Zope cant maintain a friggin web site? Isnt that rich. Hey David, Cool, thanks so much for volunteering to provide all the resources, coders and support staff to look after a 10,000

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-27 Thread Andrew Sawyers
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 09:50 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote: On 6/27/06, John Schinnerer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a basic principle of design that works (as opposed to design that fails to work). Start small and work the edges outwards. The work edges outwards that works is often

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-26 Thread Chris Withers
Andrew Sawyers wrote: It then came to technology. Some cared some didn't. I personally didn't if the result was something which the community could be proud of and not make excuses for as they directed people to the site. I'd add the caveat that it needs to be stable maintainable software

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-26 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 6/26/06, Chris Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah well, this meta-ranting is much quicker and easier... Hehe. :) I would like to point out a minor conflict between two of your meta-rants: I'd add the caveat that it needs to be stable maintainable software that isn't going to cause the

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-26 Thread Dieter Maurer
Andrew Sawyers wrote at 2006-6-25 17:54 -0400: ... Well, I think the content of this site is what I'd noted is what I noted in earlier emails. It might not be 'interesting', but I would hope it to be quality and focused. I have faith the 'interesting' aspects you wish will come from the

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-26 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 6/26/06, Dieter Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would prefer a single big site as an access point to the most relevant information. But, if this is not possible... Single big site is probably not possible. We have tried and failed. But having a small focused site that works as the nave

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-26 Thread David H
Lennart Regebro wrote: On 6/26/06, Dieter Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would prefer a single big site as an access point to the most relevant information. But, if this is not possible... Single big site is probably not possible. We have tried and failed. But having a small focused

[Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-26 Thread John Schinnerer
Aloha, ... I start to understand: You want to have a narrow, a focused site because you fear that a bigger one cannot be managed. In such a case, I would say: start with the small solution and maybe get bigger later. This is a basic principle of design that works (as opposed to

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-25 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 6/24/06, Andrew Sawyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There would be VERY limited things an individual could upload. I personally argued strongly for 0 membership on this site. If the ideas of micro sites went forward, the appropriate micro sites could allow (or not) membership as necessary.

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-25 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 6/24/06, Andrew Sawyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree - just change from microsite to 'communuty supported site' and I wouldn't find any reason to argue this personally. :) ... I'd like to see some other site write this software and feed it to www.zope.org via rss or some Ajax

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-25 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 25. Juni 2006 08:32:54 +0200 Lennart Regebro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/24/06, Andrew Sawyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There would be VERY limited things an individual could upload. I personally argued strongly for 0 membership on this site. If the ideas of micro sites went

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-25 Thread Andrew Sawyers
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 08:38 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote: OK; I see what you mean now. You ant to create the www.zope.org that works as the main entrance and integratoor of the microsites. The proble is that you wnat to do that BEFORE the microsites exist, which is backwards. I'd beg to

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-25 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 6/25/06, Andrew Sawyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd beg to differ. A community such as what PHP has built didn't work this way. They managed this very successfully. We have not. I think the problem is you want to wait until the complete city is built before you think you can open select

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-25 Thread knitti
Hi, this is my first post to the list. I wanted to add two existing sites, which also (in part) fill some of the products gap: zopewiki.org, which has a products index (functional equivalent to zope.org's, with some stale entries, I think) and planetzope.org with news and regular product

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-25 Thread Dieter Maurer
Andrew Sawyers wrote at 2006-6-24 16:23 -0400: ... * The existing concept of membership for uploading bit-rot content will be retired. This means what? There would be VERY limited things an individual could upload. I personally argued strongly for 0 membership on this site. If the ideas

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-25 Thread Dieter Maurer
Lennart Regebro wrote at 2006-6-24 22:14 +0200: ... This way, you would have an integrating site (zope.org) which would be able to provide integrationg services, e.g. a search where you are interested in a concept and happy to find hits in faq, wiki, product,... That can be done anyway. But

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-25 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 6/25/06, Dieter Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it's quite a bit more difficult when the content comes from independent microsites on different servers. Maybe, but that is without a doubt a small issue compared with the big issues microsites will solve. As I understood we have one

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-25 Thread Andrew Sawyers
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 21:41 +0200, Dieter Maurer wrote: Then I fear few interesting content will arrive at this site. Well, I think the content of this site is what I'd noted is what I noted in earlier emails. It might not be 'interesting', but I would hope it to be quality and focused. I

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-25 Thread David H
Andrew Sawyers wrote: On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 21:41 +0200, Dieter Maurer wrote: Then I fear few interesting content will arrive at this site. Well, I think the content of this site is what I'd noted is what I noted in earlier emails. It might not be 'interesting', but I

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-24 Thread John Schinnerer
Aloha, As an occasional user of the zope.org site I'll present my typical use case, as that's what matters most to me... :-D I go there normally for one of two reasons: 1) to slog through available products to see if I can find something to suit a development need I have 2) to slog

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-24 Thread Lennart Regebro
I would like to take this opprotunity to repeat myself. I know this is boring but I feel it is important. :-) We have already made a new www.zope.org once. That was an ambitious project, which potential did not become fully realized. We need to take with us the experiences of that. And this is

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-24 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24 Jun 2006, at 00:15, Andrew Sawyers wrote: A group of people in the (Plone) community have volunteered their time and resources to put together an improved, **interim** zope.org site. We understand that work is underway on a longer-term

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-24 Thread Dieter Maurer
Andrew Sawyers wrote at 2006-6-23 18:15 -0400: ... For bug tracking, either links to the existing ZC trackers or a Trac installation. If you move to Trac *PLEASE* migrate the current issues. It is very discouraging to loose all the bug reports and patches (as happened when a former

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-24 Thread Dieter Maurer
Lennart Regebro wrote at 2006-6-24 10:58 +0200: ... 1. We do NOT want a new www.zope.org. We want MANY new something.zope.org. We should have a products.zope.org, and a collector.zope.org, and a faq.zope.org, and a wiki.zope.org, and blablabla. In what way would this differ from

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-24 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 6/24/06, Dieter Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In what way would this differ from zope.org/{collector,faq,wiki,...}? Well, for one, it´s simpler to set up, and does not rely one one single point of failure (and apache that does the rewriting) to each separate server. Secondly, what I'm

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-24 Thread Andrew Sawyers
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 20:13 +0200, Dieter Maurer wrote: Andrew Sawyers wrote at 2006-6-23 18:15 -0400: ... For bug tracking, either links to the existing ZC trackers or a Trac installation. If you move to Trac *PLEASE* migrate the current issues. It is very discouraging to

Re: [Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-24 Thread Andrew Sawyers
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 10:58 +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote: We have already made a new www.zope.org once. That was an ambitious project, which potential did not become fully realized. We need to take with us the experiences of that. Trust me, many of us do. Jens and I spent many many hours on

[Zope] Improved Zope Org Proposal

2006-06-23 Thread Andrew Sawyers
Sorry for the cross-post; lets but wanted to make sure those on the zope-web list saw this. Lets keep this on the zope list going forward. For sometime, we have tried to coordinate various numbers of people in the community to get an improved Zope.org up and functional. Some of this improvement