Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-15 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Tim Hoffman wrote: I thhink just dropping zmi is ploblematical without a management ui alternative. How would you propose managing things like per instance pluggable auth components. zcml is not enough and nor is any other static config. You need per instance persistent configuration

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-15 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: Am Mittwoch 15 April 2009 09:24:23 schrieb Martijn Faassen: [snip] * I'd recommend some people get together and focus on building a much smaller, more tightly focused replacement of the ZMI that does the things people find important but is just a single package

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-15 Thread Uli Fouquet
Hi there, Martijn Faassen wrote: Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: Am Mittwoch 15 April 2009 09:24:23 schrieb Martijn Faassen: [snip] * I'd recommend some people get together and focus on building a much smaller, more tightly focused replacement of the ZMI that does the things people find

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-15 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 16:46, Jim Fulton j...@zope.com wrote: Many people have said they're using the Zope 3 app server, where app server is the collection of components used to run applications using Zope 3 components. What no one is interested in is the *application* that was distributed

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-15 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Aspeli wrote: Hanno Schlichting wrote: By now I count three people using Zope 3 for a small number of projects. But none of them seems to have the resources to continue the maintenance or future development of Zope 3. Whilst you're

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Martin Aspeli wrote: Declaring things dead has a tendency to become a self-fulfilling prophecy, and probably not something we should do lightly. I didn't mean to imply that we should declare Zope 3 dead based on this mailing list thread. This is a big decision that might warrant a Zope

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Fulton
On Apr 14, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Hanno Schlichting wrote: ... I'd merely suggest that if nobody responds to this thread announcing interest in Zope 3 the app server, then it might be time to consider it dead. Neither at PyCon nor during many of the last threads we found a single user of Zope

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Roger Ineichen wrote: * the thing with the ZMI - do you care about the ZMI? Of corse do we all need the UI part for manage the components we install. But the old style ZMI views are obsolate this days. Right now we have to write this part for each project by ourself if they need to

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Martijn Faassen
Roger Ineichen wrote: Betreff: Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3? Roger Ineichen wrote: Betreff: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3? Is anyone interested in maintaining Zope 3? /me is certainly not I don't understand why you are not interested in Zope 3. Are you really

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Dieter Maurer wrote: Hanno Schlichting wrote at 2009-4-11 15:05 +0200: ... +1, to declaring Zope 3 dead. That should allow us to refactor the remaining packages much more aggressively and reduce the dependencies. You (Zope developers) are very fast in declaring things dead and

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Jim Fulton wrote: What the heck is the Zope Toolkit? Is there a page somewhere that defines what it is? http://docs.zope.org/zopetoolkit/about/index.html I thought Zope 3 was being renamed Zope Toolkit, but given recent discussions, I'm not sure. That never was the idea. The

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: [snip] It's extremely important to understand the differences between Zope 3, and Zope 3 technologies. The only thing that looks dead is Zope 3 as a big monolithic application server. Few people are interested in that. You seem to be. Hence the question: Who

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
Hello, * 2009-04-13 12:50, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: +1, to declaring Zope 3 dead. That should allow us to refactor the remaining packages much more aggressively and reduce the dependencies. -1 from my standpoint. Two of my projects are fully based on the Zope 3 server, and switching to

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Martijn Faassen
Tim Hoffman wrote: [snip] It seems from all the discussion of late that we might of chosen a architectural dead end (though I don't think so). It's definitely not an architectural dead-end. I think the codebase we used to call Zope 3 has been evolving faster in these few months in 2009 than

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Tim Hoffman wrote: can I specify security annotations on objects persisted in the zodb as per zope3/zope2 which are over and above the class/view decleration. I'll just note you can do this in Grok. Grok has per-model security declarations, just like Zope 3's. It just doesn't have

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Chris McDonough wrote: [snip] Sounds like a plan... I hope to learn from what you do to get rid of some non-lxml C dependencies we have too (ala zope.interface, zope.proxy, zope.hookable, zope.i18nmessageid, etc); maybe we can fold some of this work into the normal or alternate

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Martin Aspeli
Hanno Schlichting wrote: By now I count three people using Zope 3 for a small number of projects. But none of them seems to have the resources to continue the maintenance or future development of Zope 3. Whilst you're absolutely right, just a word of warning: a lot of people do not read

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Martijn Faassen
Dieter Maurer wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote at 2009-4-10 18:33 +0200: Is anyone interested in maintaining Zope 3? You should leave a bit more time before you take any drastic actions... There are holidays, time of intensive other activity, . It'll take time before we all settle on a

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Baiju M wrote: [snip] Does Zope Tookit support building a web application out of the box without relying on Grok, Zope 2 or any other framework ? (I am Ok to use a Buildout for building application from Zope Toolkit packages) This is a very good question. My answer is no, it doesn't.

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Fulton
On Apr 14, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: Hey, Jim Fulton wrote: What the heck is the Zope Toolkit? Is there a page somewhere that defines what it is? http://docs.zope.org/zopetoolkit/about/index.html I thought Zope 3 was being renamed Zope Toolkit, but given recent

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Roger Ineichen
Hi Martijn -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: zope-dev-boun...@zope.org [mailto:zope-dev-boun...@zope.org] Im Auftrag von Martijn Faassen Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. April 2009 17:54 An: zope-dev@zope.org Betreff: Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3? Hey, Baiju M wrote

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Stephan Richter wrote: On Friday 10 April 2009, Martijn Faassen wrote: [snip] With Zope 3 I mean: * the thing with the ZMI - do you care about the ZMI? I think boxing in Zope 3 being the ZMI app is not useful. I have not used the ZMI since 2 years now and I am still considering

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Jim Fulton wrote: I don't think these bits are cleanly separated. For example, if a content component has some views, are those ZMI bits? Yes. zope.container doesn't define views. zope.app.container did (and does). browser directories are generally not part of the Zope Toolkit,

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: [snip] If the question was who is interested in zope3, the application server, and willing to maintain it, I'd answer me. Thanks for speaking up! Do you use the Zope 3 ZMI a lot? The Zope Toolkit right now is most of the Zope 3 libraries. The main thing we're

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Albertas Agejevas wrote: [snip] You are using an interesting definition of maintaining. This is why I spelled it out. But yes, if you maintain an open source project, and you want it to work well, you need to take care about issues like maintaining its community, which means

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
Hello, * 2009-04-14 19:25, Martijn Faassen wrote: Do you use the Zope 3 ZMI a lot? It depends on your meaning of a lot: we do not use it as main UI, not even for the back-end, nevertheless we often use it for managing our applications. I mean, adding/renaming/moving/editing objects to the ZODB,

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Roger Ineichen
Hi Martijn Betreff: Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3? Hey, Jim Fulton wrote: I don't think these bits are cleanly separated. For example, if a content component has some views, are those ZMI bits? Yes. zope.container doesn't define views. zope.app.container did

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Hermann Himmelbauer
Am Dienstag 14 April 2009 19:32:20 schrieb Fabio Tranchitella: Hello, * 2009-04-14 19:25, Martijn Faassen wrote: Do you use the Zope 3 ZMI a lot? It depends on your meaning of a lot: we do not use it as main UI, not even for the back-end, nevertheless we often use it for managing our

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-14 Thread Tim Hoffman
I thhink just dropping zmi is ploblematical without a management ui alternative. How would you propose managing things like per instance pluggable auth components. zcml is not enough and nor is any other static config. You need per instance persistent configuration and I am assuming grok and

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-13 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 08:14, Dieter Maurer die...@handshake.de wrote:  When upgrading from Zope 2.8 to Zope 2.11, I had to fight for  several hours because Zope 3 interfaces have been changed: True, you went from Zope 3.0 to 3.3 in one swoop there, and the changes was significant. But most of

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-13 Thread Hermann Himmelbauer
Am Samstag 11 April 2009 15:05:31 schrieb Hanno Schlichting: Roger Ineichen wrote: Betreff: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3? Is anyone interested in maintaining Zope 3? /me is certainly not With Zope 3 I mean: I think we should take a look if we can build a minimal setup

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-13 Thread Martin Aspeli
Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: -1 from my standpoint. Two of my projects are fully based on the Zope 3 server, and switching to something else would be quite some pain. FWIW, I think you're absolutely right. We can't just declare it dead because it is convenient to our goal of having clearer

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-13 Thread Roger Ineichen
Hi Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: zope-dev-bounces+dev=projekt01...@zope.org [mailto:zope-dev-bounces+dev=projekt01...@zope.org] Im Auftrag von Martin Aspeli Gesendet: Montag, 13. April 2009 13:07 An: zope-dev@zope.org Betreff: Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-13 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:49, Hermann Himmelbauer du...@qwer.tk wrote: I personally find it interesting that people are that fast with turning around and killing off things. I personally based my decision for Zope 3 on Philipps book (Web Compontent Development with Zope 3), whereas the latest

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Martin Aspeli wrote: Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: -1 from my standpoint. Two of my projects are fully based on the Zope 3 server, and switching to something else would be quite some pain. FWIW, I think you're absolutely right. We can't just declare it dead because it is

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-13 Thread Baiju M
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Martijn Faassen faas...@startifact.com wrote: Hi there, Is anyone interested in maintaining Zope 3? With Zope 3 I mean: * the thing with the ZMI - do you care about the ZMI? * the thing that can be installed as a particular development platform - do you

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-13 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Baiju M wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Martijn Faassen faas...@startifact.com wrote: Hi there, Is anyone interested in maintaining Zope 3? With Zope 3 I mean: * the thing with the ZMI - do you care about the ZMI? * the thing that

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-12 Thread Dieter Maurer
Martijn Faassen wrote at 2009-4-10 18:33 +0200: Is anyone interested in maintaining Zope 3? You should leave a bit more time before you take any drastic actions... There are holidays, time of intensive other activity, ... * the thing that has some kind of documentation website - do you

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-12 Thread Dieter Maurer
Hanno Schlichting wrote at 2009-4-11 15:05 +0200: ... +1, to declaring Zope 3 dead. That should allow us to refactor the remaining packages much more aggressively and reduce the dependencies. You (Zope developers) are very fast in declaring things dead and destroy things application developers

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-12 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 02:10, Tim Hoffman t...@zute.net wrote: We are using Zope 3 pretty much as it comes from zopeproject, and storm orm for a large part of the persistence layer (plus ZODB). I have to say I think it's great that somebody that does this finally is speaking up. There shurely

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-12 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 08:51, Dieter Maurer die...@handshake.de wrote: I see myself rather as an application developer and conclude that Zope may no longer be adequate to build large applications on top of it -- applications that need to live and be maintained for many years to come. Well,

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-12 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris McDonough wrote: On 4/11/09 11:49 PM, Tim Hoffman wrote: Ok so pretty much the same as the traditional Zope 3 model. Are you still using the 'c' based zope.security or built your own. We don't depend on zope.security and there is no C in

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-11 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Roger Ineichen wrote: Betreff: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3? Is anyone interested in maintaining Zope 3? /me is certainly not With Zope 3 I mean: I think we should take a look if we can build a minimal setup which Plone, Grok and other projects can use. Do you think there

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-11 Thread Chris Withers
Roger Ineichen wrote: Hi Martijn Betreff: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3? Hi there, Is anyone interested in maintaining Zope 3? With Zope 3 I mean: * the thing with the ZMI - do you care about the ZMI? Of corse do we all need the UI part for manage the components we

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-11 Thread Chris Withers
Martijn Faassen wrote: If nobody is interested, we should perhaps stop talking about it entirely. If people are just interested in the ZMI, perhaps we should form a ZMI project. Yes, but I'd like to *ban* the name ZMI, that is a Zope 2 construct and should be left as such... Chris --

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-11 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger Ineichen wrote: If nobody is interested, we should perhaps stop talking about it entirely. If people are just interested in the ZMI, perhaps we should form a ZMI project. The question is, can we find browser page pattern which Grok,

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-11 Thread Tim Hoffman
Hi I have a couple of questions about Zope 3 rather than Zope Toolkit, as it seems not many people are using Zope 3 the application server. I have been working on a project using Zope 3 (the app server ) for nearly 8 months . The project is not finished (other stuff keeps coming up which

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-11 Thread Chris McDonough
On 4/11/09 8:10 PM, Tim Hoffman wrote: If someone where coming to the Zope party now and needed the full blown security model and view mechanisms, and the zcml tied to that model what would the choice be going forward? repoze.bfg has pretty much gutted that model (which is fine as a simpler

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-11 Thread Tim Hoffman
Hi Chris can I specify security annotations on objects persisted in the zodb as per zope3/zope2 which are over and above the class/view decleration. bfg wasn't around when we started so I have looked too closely at bfg from security point of view T On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Chris

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-11 Thread Chris McDonough
On 4/11/09 10:20 PM, Tim Hoffman wrote: Hi Chris can I specify security annotations on objects persisted in the zodb as per zope3/zope2 which are over and above the class/view decleration. Yes, for instance, in some code that manipulates a persistent object, you can do something like:

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-11 Thread Tim Hoffman
Ok so pretty much the same as the traditional Zope 3 model. Are you still using the 'c' based zope.security or built your own. On a side note I have got a big chunk of zope3 running on gae (had to gut zope.security and zope.proxy) and plan on revisiting the whole effort looking at bfg, but I

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-11 Thread Chris McDonough
On 4/11/09 11:49 PM, Tim Hoffman wrote: Ok so pretty much the same as the traditional Zope 3 model. Are you still using the 'c' based zope.security or built your own. We don't depend on zope.security and there is no C in the BFG security code itself. On a side note I have got a big chunk of

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-11 Thread Tim Hoffman
Hi Chris On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Chris McDonough chr...@plope.com wrote: On 4/11/09 11:49 PM, Tim Hoffman wrote: Ok so pretty much the same as the traditional Zope 3 model. Are you still using the 'c' based zope.security or built your own. We don't depend on zope.security and

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-11 Thread Chris McDonough
On 4/12/09 12:02 AM, Tim Hoffman wrote: Hi Chris On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Chris McDonoughchr...@plope.com wrote: On 4/11/09 11:49 PM, Tim Hoffman wrote: Ok so pretty much the same as the traditional Zope 3 model. Are you still using the 'c' based zope.security or built your own.

Re: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3?

2009-04-10 Thread Roger Ineichen
Hi Martijn Betreff: [Zope-dev] who wants to maintain Zope 3? Hi there, Is anyone interested in maintaining Zope 3? With Zope 3 I mean: * the thing with the ZMI - do you care about the ZMI? Of corse do we all need the UI part for manage the components we install. But the old style