Re: [Zope-dev] [Zope-Checkins] SVN: Zope/trunk/ merged haufe-legacy-integration branch

2009-05-13 Thread Bjorn Tillenius
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 02:25:38PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote: The problem is that the visibility of issues in Launchpad is very poor. You can't even get notifications of bugs unless you're part of the development team. You don't have to be part of the development team. You can go to

Re: [Zope-dev] [Zope-Checkins] SVN: Zope/trunk/ merged haufe-legacy-integration branch

2009-05-13 Thread Chris Withers
Bjorn Tillenius wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 02:25:38PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote: The problem is that the visibility of issues in Launchpad is very poor. You can't even get notifications of bugs unless you're part of the development team. You don't have to be part of the development

Re: [Zope-dev] [Zope-Checkins] SVN: Zope/trunk/ merged haufe-legacy-integration branch

2009-05-13 Thread Chetan Kumar
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: I see no such option on: https://launchpad.net/zope2 This page has the option: https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2 Bugs tab on this link takes one to the above URL. https://launchpad.net/zope2 Chetan

Re: [Zope-dev] [Zope-Checkins] SVN: Zope/trunk/ merged haufe-legacy-integration branch

2009-05-13 Thread Bjorn Tillenius
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 09:31:42AM +0100, Chris Withers wrote: Bjorn Tillenius wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 02:25:38PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote: The problem is that the visibility of issues in Launchpad is very poor. You can't even get notifications of bugs unless you're part of the

Re: [Zope-dev] [Zope-Checkins] SVN: Zope/trunk/ merged haufe-legacy-integration branch

2009-05-13 Thread Chris Withers
Bjorn Tillenius wrote: https://launchpad.net/zope2 Oh, that's unfortunate. There you have to go to the Bugs tab, and then you should see a Subscribe to bug mail link in the middle of the page. ...and even there it's pretty well hidden. Why isn't it a big button like Report a bug and Ask a

Re: [Zope-dev] [Zope-Checkins] SVN: Zope/trunk/ merged haufe-legacy-integration branch

2009-05-13 Thread Bjorn Tillenius
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 09:51:42AM +0100, Chris Withers wrote: Bjorn Tillenius wrote: https://launchpad.net/zope2 Oh, that's unfortunate. There you have to go to the Bugs tab, and then you should see a Subscribe to bug mail link in the middle of the page. ...and even there it's pretty well

[Zope-dev] Zope Tests: 8 OK

2009-05-13 Thread Zope Tests Summarizer
Summary of messages to the zope-tests list. Period Tue May 12 12:00:00 2009 UTC to Wed May 13 12:00:00 2009 UTC. There were 8 messages: 8 from Zope Tests. Tests passed OK --- Subject: OK : Zope-2.10 Python-2.4.6 : Linux From: Zope Tests Date: Tue May 12 20:52:26 EDT 2009 URL:

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Martijn Faassen
Chris McDonough wrote: Another thing is this: even if we're successful in teasing out dependency info so we do have a collection of truly independently useful things, after it's all over, we're going to get to a point one way or another where we make a big package of stuff that just

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Martijn Faassen
Chris McDonough wrote: [snip extending configuration patterns instead of replacing wholesale] Often this code makes the subframework tremendously complex, and the subframework grows inappropriate dependencies along the way. *Sometimes* the situation gets so confusing for a new user, they

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Patrick Gerken
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 15:29, Martijn Faassen faas...@startifact.comwrote: Chris McDonough wrote: We can ameliorate the situation in a few ways: - We can reduce the number of distributions. - We can make each current Zope package distribution independently useful. My suggestion

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey Chris, Chris McDonough wrote: On 5/12/09 4:44 AM, Patrick Gerken wrote: [snip] I don't think there will ever be a point where it's finished; at least not in any time frame in which Zope is still relevant at the end. Sure, we can keep the current setuptools distributions and keep

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Chris McDonough wrote: [snip] If your package depends on zope.app.publisher, you get *78* eggs. 63 eggs these days, by my measurement. Still far too many. I think with some effort we can chop off quite a few more. Look here at the main cycles in that graph (this is the cause of a lot

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Patrick Gerken wrote: [snip] Wouldn't it be possible to put them on a dedicated pypi? pypi.support.zope.com http://pypi.support.zope.com? Yes, but not without breaking backwards compatibility with a lot of released buildout.cfg files, and having to arrange our own mirroring services

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey Chris, What about the following alternative suggestion to alleviate some of the underlying issues you point out. I agree we are signaling badly which packages are interesting to newcomers and outsiders and which packages aren't. In part we've already done the damage with the packages in

[Zope-dev] Mailinglist for Zope 2 bugs!?

2009-05-13 Thread Andreas Jung
On 12.05.09 16:49, Sidnei da Silva wrote: That's not needed. Since the zope2-dev team is automatically subscribed to issues, we only need to set it's contact address. If we set that address to zope-...@lists.zope.org, then issues will automatically be delivered to it. Based on

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Tom Hoffman
The implementation details are over my head, but what SchoolTool needs is a middle ground between one big package and a giant pile of little ones, because our primary deployment strategy is via Linux distribution packaging, in Debian/Ubuntu in particular. Currently, Fabio maintains an official

Re: [Zope-dev] Mailinglist for Zope 2 bug!?

2009-05-13 Thread Sidnei da Silva
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Andreas Jung andr...@andreas-jung.com wrote: So anyone can subscribe to Zope 2 ticket changes without having to be a member of the Zope 2 team. Works for me. -- Sidnei da Silva Canonical Ltd.  Landscape · Changing the way you manage your systems

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Gerken wrote: I start being scared of using pypi. You should be *very* afraid of depending on PyPI for softare rolled into production. PyPI is only really useful for discovery during development. Tres. - --

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Chris McDonough
On 5/13/09 10:34 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: Hey Chris, What about the following alternative suggestion to alleviate some of the underlying issues you point out. I agree we are signaling badly which packages are interesting to newcomers and outsiders and which packages aren't. In part

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Jim Fulton
On May 13, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Gerken wrote: I start being scared of using pypi. I wonder why. You should be *very* afraid of depending on PyPI for softare rolled into production. Why do you think he should be

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Andreas Jung
On 13.05.09 18:38, Jim Fulton wrote: On May 13, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Gerken wrote: I start being scared of using pypi. I wonder why. You should be *very* afraid of depending on PyPI for softare

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Jim Fulton
On May 13, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Andreas Jung wrote: On 13.05.09 18:38, Jim Fulton wrote: On May 13, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Gerken wrote: I start being scared of using pypi. I wonder why. You should be *very*

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Andreas Jung
On 13.05.09 18:44, Jim Fulton wrote: On May 13, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Andreas Jung wrote: On 13.05.09 18:38, Jim Fulton wrote: On May 13, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Gerken wrote: I start being scared of using pypi. I

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Martijn Faassen
Tom Hoffman wrote: The implementation details are over my head, but what SchoolTool needs is a middle ground between one big package and a giant pile of little ones, because our primary deployment strategy is via Linux distribution packaging, in Debian/Ubuntu in particular. Currently, Fabio

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Fulton wrote: - We now know not to remove releases. Not everybody does: I've seen folks *recently* re-upload a changed release without bumping the version number; and we is a much narrower set than the set of all PyPI maintainers. - If you

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Chris McDonough wrote: [snip] I'd hope you'd agree that given a perfect world where packaging structure backwards compatibility was not a concern: - The original distribution structure was a mistake. - Changing it would be a bugfix. I think we should've gone for an approach where

[Zope-dev] reusability markers in our documentation

2009-05-13 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hi there, In the ZTK futures thread Chris McDonough pointed out that right now we don't signal which packages are easily reusable outside of the Zope Toolkit and which packages aren't, and need a great knowledge of the way the Zope Toolkit works and a large amount of installed packages. In

[Zope-dev] zope.app.publication dependencies (volunteers needed!)

2009-05-13 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hi there, zope.app.publisher is depended on by quite a bit of code that uses the Zope Toolkit, as it defines brower:view and browser:resource and the like. Unfortunately zope.app.publisher currently depends on more than 60 packages. This is rather excessive, and we'd like to cut down on this.

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Jim Fulton
On May 13, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Andreas Jung wrote: On 13.05.09 18:44, Jim Fulton wrote: On May 13, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Andreas Jung wrote: On 13.05.09 18:38, Jim Fulton wrote: On May 13, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Gerken

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Jim Fulton
On May 13, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Fulton wrote: - We now know not to remove releases. Not everybody does: I've seen folks *recently* re-upload a changed release without bumping the version number; and we is a much

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Andreas Jung
On 13.05.09 20:16, Jim Fulton wrote: I don't consider the 2 statements to be the same. I had a feeling that that was what you meant, at least on some level. I use PyPI when creating source releases. I use source releases (actually binary rpms built from source rpms built from source

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris McDonough wrote: On 5/13/09 10:34 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: Hey Chris, What about the following alternative suggestion to alleviate some of the underlying issues you point out. I agree we are signaling badly which packages are

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey there, Tres Seaver wrote: [snip] I think we need to clarify terms / triage the sets of packages we are talking about: Sure, agreed, though I think we can already work with 'reusable' and 'not reusable' right now as hints to users. The 'not reusable' group consists of 'wannabe reusable'

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Chris McDonough
On 5/13/09 1:22 PM, Martijn Faassen wrote: That said, given your other arguments in prior mails today, I'll give up agitating for any packaging changes on this maillist, because it's pretty much impossible to argue against the article of faith that there is some presumed majority of

Re: [Zope-dev] ZTK futures: one big package?

2009-05-13 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martijn Faassen wrote: Tres Seaver wrote: I think we need to clarify terms / triage the sets of packages we are talking about: Sure, agreed, though I think we can already work with 'reusable' and 'not reusable' right now as hints to users.