Re: [Zope-dev] Introducing ZopePrints.

2001-02-14 Thread Erik Enge

[Michel Pelletier]

| We would love to see this description from you.

The description of such a system/model in a Fishbowl project?  Or just
a general description?  Sorry for being slow :)

| I think it would be great to get examples of your problems in a case
| study format, but also in a higher-level, pattern like description.

Yes, that's what I'm after.  Patterns.

| Good luck!

Thanks!  It's good to see others interested in this :)

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Re: [Zope-dev] Introducing ZopePrints.

2001-02-14 Thread Andy McKay

Ah that one. I was looking too deeply for something amusing there.
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> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Andy McKay wrote:
>
> > Perhaps I need more beer but whats: F=MA?
>
> Force = Mass x Acceleration
>
> ie. the harder you kick the beer can the faster it will accelerate for any
> given amount of beer in it. a.k.a why kicking empty beers can hurt your
> toes less than kicking full ones. (why would you want to kick a full
> one...?)
>
> :)
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Re: [Zope-dev] Introducing ZopePrints.

2001-02-14 Thread Matt Hamilton

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Andy McKay wrote:

> Perhaps I need more beer but whats: F=MA?

Force = Mass x Acceleration

ie. the harder you kick the beer can the faster it will accelerate for any
given amount of beer in it. a.k.a why kicking empty beers can hurt your
toes less than kicking full ones. (why would you want to kick a full
one...?) 

:)

-Matt

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Re: [Zope-dev] Introducing ZopePrints.

2001-02-14 Thread Andy McKay

> partly on chaos theory, Jim's three laws of engineering (1. F=MA, 2. You
> can't solve a problem unless you know the answer, 3. You can't push a
> rope)  and on the abundance of Thai food.

Perhaps I need more beer but whats: F=MA?
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Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Introducing ZopePrints.


>
>
> On 12 Feb 2001, Erik Enge wrote:
>
> > The rationale behind this is that the community at large would benefit
> > from this by having _real_life_ case studies so when their time has
> > come to implement an application in Zope, they don't fall into the
> > same traps and pitfalls we did.  Instead of benchmarks, the Zope
> > community would use implementation documents to decide whether Zope is
> > up for the job or not, that's what really helps.
>
> We would love to see this description from you.  We inside DC have our own
> problem solving development process that is large, complex, slow, but
> often (IMO) accurate if done well.  It is based partly on the "Rational"
> model developed by the Three Amigos:
>
>
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=the%20three%20amigos&lastnode_id=12
5995
>
> partly on chaos theory, Jim's three laws of engineering (1. F=MA, 2. You
> can't solve a problem unless you know the answer, 3. You can't push a
> rope)  and on the abundance of Thai food.
>
> We also have a "fishbowl" experiment community process, a "dogbowl"
> content managment design process, a documentation process, and one
> horse-choking travel policy.
>
> I think it would be great to get examples of your problems in a case study
> format, but also in a higher-level, pattern like description.  Your
> description sounds like it is based on the problem and the goals, which is
> really great.
>
> >
> > I'm quite sure that it will also work as a tool for finding gaps and
> > holes in either Zope or its tools and Products.
>
> Indeed.
>
> > We would like to start a project going in the Fishbowl which aims at
> > creating the right tools to document a project as described above.
>
> The fishbowl is the perfect place to do this.  In a conversation with
> other people including Brian who is the "keeper of the fishbowl" we
> realized that documentation artifacts come out of the fishbowl almost as
> much as the software.  In fact, that's one of the whole reasons for the
> fishbowl, to come up with better software because we thought about it and
> wrote down some words before we started hacking code.  Instant
> documentation.
>
> Good luck!
>
> -Michel
>
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Re: [Zope-dev] Introducing ZopePrints.

2001-02-13 Thread Michel Pelletier



On 12 Feb 2001, Erik Enge wrote:

> The rationale behind this is that the community at large would benefit
> from this by having _real_life_ case studies so when their time has
> come to implement an application in Zope, they don't fall into the
> same traps and pitfalls we did.  Instead of benchmarks, the Zope
> community would use implementation documents to decide whether Zope is
> up for the job or not, that's what really helps.

We would love to see this description from you.  We inside DC have our own
problem solving development process that is large, complex, slow, but
often (IMO) accurate if done well.  It is based partly on the "Rational"
model developed by the Three Amigos:

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=the%20three%20amigos&lastnode_id=125995

partly on chaos theory, Jim's three laws of engineering (1. F=MA, 2. You
can't solve a problem unless you know the answer, 3. You can't push a
rope)  and on the abundance of Thai food.

We also have a "fishbowl" experiment community process, a "dogbowl"
content managment design process, a documentation process, and one
horse-choking travel policy.

I think it would be great to get examples of your problems in a case study
format, but also in a higher-level, pattern like description.  Your
description sounds like it is based on the problem and the goals, which is
really great.

>
> I'm quite sure that it will also work as a tool for finding gaps and
> holes in either Zope or its tools and Products.

Indeed.

> We would like to start a project going in the Fishbowl which aims at
> creating the right tools to document a project as described above.

The fishbowl is the perfect place to do this.  In a conversation with
other people including Brian who is the "keeper of the fishbowl" we
realized that documentation artifacts come out of the fishbowl almost as
much as the software.  In fact, that's one of the whole reasons for the
fishbowl, to come up with better software because we thought about it and
wrote down some words before we started hacking code.  Instant
documentation.

Good luck!

-Michel


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Re: [Zope-dev] Introducing ZopePrints.

2001-02-12 Thread Tres Seaver

On 12 Feb 2001, Erik Enge wrote:

> [Tres Seaver]
> 
> | Please see:
> |
> |   http://dev.zope.org/Projects/PTK
> |
> | for our work-in-progress.
> 
> Hey, looks like what I'm after.  I can see that it's a work in
> progress, so if you need any help, give me a shout.  It didn't
> say too much about the project itself, do you have any such
> information on a page somewhere?  Timescales?  Goals?

Thanks for pointing out the empty "Overview" -- in moving from
the last, "PTK" version to the new, "CMF" version, I inadvertently
left the description behind.

As for timescale, we are planning to release CMF 1.0 at the end
of this month.  The exact deatils of the dogbowl site are still
in flux (some want it to be at "cmf.zope.org", for instance).
We also expect to have the membership integrated with the main
zope.org stuff Real Soon Now.

The core of the idea is that project artifacts are content, just
like other content, and can be managed using the same tools.

Tres.
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Re: [Zope-dev] Introducing ZopePrints.

2001-02-12 Thread Erik Enge

[Tres Seaver]

| Please see:
|
|   http://dev.zope.org/Projects/PTK
|
| for our work-in-progress.

Hey, looks like what I'm after.  I can see that it's a work in
progress, so if you need any help, give me a shout.  It didn't say too
much about the project itself, do you have any such information on a
page somewhere?  Timescales?  Goals?

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Re: [Zope-dev] Introducing ZopePrints.

2001-02-12 Thread Tres Seaver

Erik Enge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Some of us over at ZopeZen.org (http://www.zopezen.org>) have
> been discussing the fenomena that is called ZopePrints.  I'll give a
> brief explanation, and would appretiate feedback as to whether this a
> good idea or not.
> 
> A ZopePrint is a document, or maybe a set of documents, which
> describes a part of, or the complete development process for a Zope
> application.  This could include the whole process from when the
> customers tell you they want to do project X with you, till you
> actually finish it and it's up and running in the customers offices.
> 
> Some points may be:
> 
> * Problem definition
> * Problem analysis
> * Project management (Resource allocation)
> * Design phase
> * Zope design
> * Test phase
> 
> (Have a looksy at
> http://www.zopezen.org/SDot/981475769/index_html> to check out
> all the suggestions, and my initial post.)
> 
> The rationale behind this is that the community at large would benefit
> from this by having _real_life_ case studies so when their time has
> come to implement an application in Zope, they don't fall into the
> same traps and pitfalls we did.  Instead of benchmarks, the Zope
> community would use implementation documents to decide whether Zope is
> up for the job or not, that's what really helps.
> 
> I'm quite sure that it will also work as a tool for finding gaps and
> holes in either Zope or its tools and Products.
> 
> We would like to start a project going in the Fishbowl which aims at
> creating the right tools to document a project as described above.
> 
> Feel free to make suggestions!

Funny you should mention that :)  We have been working on just
such a site, using the PTK^H^H^HCMF as a tool for managing its
own project artifacts.  We are calling the project the "CMF
dogbowl", as it is a cross between the Fishbowl process and the
"eat your own dogfood" mantra made famous by the Mozilla team.
Please see:

  http://dev.zope.org/Projects/PTK

for our work-in-progress.  Note that this is a separate Zope
instance from the rest of 'dev', and that your existing zope.org
membership is not (yet) valid there.

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[Zope-dev] Introducing ZopePrints.

2001-02-12 Thread Erik Enge

¡Hola!

Some of us over at ZopeZen.org (http://www.zopezen.org>) have
been discussing the fenomena that is called ZopePrints.  I'll give a
brief explanation, and would appretiate feedback as to whether this a
good idea or not.

A ZopePrint is a document, or maybe a set of documents, which
describes a part of, or the complete development process for a Zope
application.  This could include the whole process from when the
customers tell you they want to do project X with you, till you
actually finish it and it's up and running in the customers offices.

Some points may be:

* Problem definition
* Problem analysis
* Project management (Resource allocation)
* Design phase
* Zope design
* Test phase

(Have a looksy at
http://www.zopezen.org/SDot/981475769/index_html> to check out
all the suggestions, and my initial post.)

The rationale behind this is that the community at large would benefit
from this by having _real_life_ case studies so when their time has
come to implement an application in Zope, they don't fall into the
same traps and pitfalls we did.  Instead of benchmarks, the Zope
community would use implementation documents to decide whether Zope is
up for the job or not, that's what really helps.

I'm quite sure that it will also work as a tool for finding gaps and
holes in either Zope or its tools and Products.

We would like to start a project going in the Fishbowl which aims at
creating the right tools to document a project as described above.

Feel free to make suggestions!

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