[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope] Re: The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Andrew Milton wrote: +---[ Philipp von Weitershausen ]-- | Andrew Milton wrote: | +---[ Stephan Richter ]-- | | Hello everyone, | | | | With the development of Zope 3, the Zope developers committed to a new | | development process and

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: merge zope-dev and zope3-dev?

2006-02-21 Thread Chris Withers
Rob Jeschofnik wrote: I am negative [insert some large integer here]. I absolutely could not care about Zope 2 development issues. That is why I subscribed to Zope3-dev. Zope 2 and Zope 3 are very different animals, and I cannot see any reason to merge their discussions. So you think Zope 2

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Zope 3 web root

2006-02-21 Thread Chris Withers
Shane Hathaway wrote: Page, File, Image, Python Page, SQL Script, and ZPT Page. I suggest that no one should be invited to create these kinds of objects in ZODB; it's a road to misery. I'm sorry, I simply don't agree. I find TTW development (especially with the aid of WebDAV) _exceedingly_

Re: [Zope3-dev] merge zope-dev and zope3-dev?

2006-02-21 Thread Chris Withers
Fred Drake wrote: On 2/16/06, Chris Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To be clear: I'm talking _only_ about merging the dev lists, _not_ the user lists. The users lists are still largely independent, but it seems like just about every post to the dev list now has a bearing on both Zope 2 and

[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope] Re: The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Andrew Milton wrote: +---[ Philipp von Weitershausen ]-- | | Handing over ownership to the ZF and therefore having signed a | Contributor Agreement are the terms of the svn.zope.org repository, just | like that code is to be made ZPL. The license part is irrelevant

[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Stefane Fermigier
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: Andrew Milton wrote: +---[ Stephan Richter ]-- | Hello everyone, | | With the development of Zope 3, the Zope developers committed to a new | development process and higher software quality guidelines. With the adoption | of Zope 3

Re: [Zope3-dev] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 04:31:03PM -0500, Stephan Richter wrote: Hi Stephan, This seems to me a great step forward but I am missing something. The quality is measured by a number of metrics, but it seems nowhere is actually measured if the software does what it is supposed to do, if it is

[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope] Re: The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Andrew Milton wrote: +---[ Philipp von Weitershausen ]-- | | | * putting a project/package under the wings of the ZF ensures long-term | | IP protection | | How? I think my death + 70 years is further away than the death of ZF, or in | fact the death of Zope.

Re: [Zope3-dev] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Martijn Faassen
Lennart Regebro wrote: [snip] tests (in doctest format) This seems like a very random requirement for me. I'd like to see tests that can be run with the standard test-runner, otherwise I don't see a reason to restrict it. I find doctest greating for testing docs, and testing longer use cases.

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Stephan Richter
On Monday 20 February 2006 19:24, Martin Aspeli wrote: My immediate concern is about resources: Who will have the time or incentive to police the common repository and grant certification? It seems to be a non-trivial process that may end up being quite time-consuming. It may be perceived as

[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Stephan Richter
On Monday 20 February 2006 20:09, Andrew Milton wrote: So in order to even get your Open Source package LISTED, you have to sign over the rights of your code to Zope Corp (currently, Zope Foundation later), and then check it into the svn respository. Is this is correct? NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT!

[Zope3-dev] Re: The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Stephan Richter
On Monday 20 February 2006 23:16, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: No. The common repository under the wings of ZC/ZF is just *a* repository that implements the ZSCP. There can be others, for example the Plone repository, the collective repository (perhaps), etc. Correct. I had earlier

[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope] Re: The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Stephan Richter
On Monday 20 February 2006 23:55, Andrew Milton wrote: Wow, you took the following two quotes out of context. block quote The Common Repository is *not* a replacement for other high-level repositories like Plone's or ECM's. It does not aim at assimilating everything in the wider Zope

[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope] Re: The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 05:30, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: Anyways, you're welcome to contribute code to the z3base if you'd prefer a public repository that doesn't require IP handover/sharing. Who knows, perhaps we'll even manage to implement the ZSCP for some packages there :). That

[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope] Re: The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 07:15, Andrew Milton wrote: The proposal currently requires 3rd party code to be handed over to Zope Foundation[1] AND checked into the ZF svn repository in order to be 'certified'. You indicated this was indeed the case. That's not true. Phillip and I both negated

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope] Re: The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Lennart Regebro
OK, so it is now clear from Stephans comments that thsi really is two separate proposals, just mixed into one file because of Stephans workload. I think we should properly split them up, because this clearly made a lot of people confused, and I wonder if anybody that read this proposal realized

[Zope3-dev] Re: The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread whit
Martin Aspeli wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:28:09 -, Stephan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have spent the last two weeks working on a proposal that defines a Zope Software Certification Program (ZSCP) and a Common Repository that implements this process. The proposal is attached to

[Zope3-dev] Re: [Plone-developers] Re: The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:47, whit wrote: what hopefully zscp would do is allow a code commons at one end (ala collective, easy entry, friendly to experimentation) and a fully certified set of components at the other. In between, there would be well defined process for how software moves

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Zope 3 web root

2006-02-21 Thread Gary Poster
On Feb 18, 2006, at 3:08 AM, Shane Hathaway wrote: In my last project, reusing the ZMI seemed like a good idea. Maybe that was a bad choice. Do you start with an empty site.zcml? I haven't dared yet. :-) We started mostly from scratch, with various successes and failures as we tried

Re: [Zope3-dev] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 05:59, Reinoud van Leeuwen wrote: This seems to me a great step forward but I am missing something. The quality is measured by a number of metrics, but it seems nowhere is actually measured if the software does what it is supposed to do, if it is clear how it works

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: [Zope3-dev] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Chris McDonough
I hate to cross-post this, but would it be possible to limit this discussion to a single list (e.g. zope3-dev, maybe)? I'm interested in this topic, but my mail client isn't smart enough to filter it out to only one place and I'm sure there are a lot of other people with the same issue.

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 05:38, Stefane Fermigier wrote: However, I believe like you Philipp, that both initiatives should be decoupled. The two things are decoupled as section 2 does not require section 3. I decided to leave it in the same document for several reasons: (1) Bandwidth.

Re: [Zope3-dev] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 06:09, Lennart Regebro wrote: First, about the IP: The idea that we can use the same certification process for different repositories and different code owners is interesting. In that case, there could be a common listing/certification site, covering several

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope] Re: The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:50, Lennart Regebro wrote: OK, so it is now clear from Stephans comments that thsi really is two separate proposals, just mixed into one file because of Stephans workload. I think we should properly split them up, because this clearly made a lot of people

Re: [Zope3-dev] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 2/21/06, Stephan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 05:59, Reinoud van Leeuwen wrote: This seems to me a great step forward but I am missing something. The quality is measured by a number of metrics, but it seems nowhere is actually measured if the software does

Re: [Zope3-dev] rdb: Disappearing Connection redux

2006-02-21 Thread Jan-Wijbrand Kolman
Brian Sutherland wrote: Make sure you have a sqlos revision after 22260, as before that sqlos was caching connections (even ones where the server has gone away). Aha! Right! Now I understand. Thanks for the hint! Now I only have to wait 8 hours to see if it works ;) Did it work? By the

Re: [Zope3-dev] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:33, Lennart Regebro wrote: 1. Having at least one reasonably complete usage example. 2. All code examples in the documentation should be in doctest format, and included as a part of the standard test-run. (Maybe you had these in there and I forgot about them,

Re: [Zope3-dev] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Lennart Regebro
Thanks for the answer. I only have one remaining comment, then, about testing: On 2/21/06, Stephan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it random? It is taken straight from the conventions now used in Zope 3 for all new development. The rationale behind it is that you are forced to document

[Zope3-dev] Simplify Skinning ready for review / work on Reducing the Amount of ZCML Directives

2006-02-21 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Hi there, a large portion of http://dev.zope.org//SimplifySkinning has been implemented in the philikon-simplify-skinning branch. Please check it out and give me feedback. The 'Browser Skin Names' vocabulary has not been implemented yet. This is a no-brainer and will follow tomorrow or so.

Re: [Zope3-dev] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 11:02, Lennart Regebro wrote: On 2/21/06, Stephan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it random? It is taken straight from the conventions now used in Zope 3 for all new development. The rationale behind it is that you are forced to document and reason all

Re: [Zope3-dev] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Benji York
Lennart Regebro wrote: Thanks for the answer. I only have one remaining comment, then, about testing: On 2/21/06, Stephan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it random? It is taken straight from the conventions now used in Zope 3 for all new development. The rationale behind it is

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Stefane Fermigier
Stephan Richter wrote: (2) I fear that the ZSCP would be talked to death and stay dead. My experience in the Open Source world has shown that if something does not have practicality, it dies unless someone is getting paid. I am certainly not getting paid for this. By biggest interest here is

Re: [Zope3-dev] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 2/21/06, Stephan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most testing I do is not about handling cases at all, it's about testing specific functionality, making sure that old bugs doesn't pop up again and stuff like that. Most of these tests would in doctest format provide no documentation at

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Zope 3 web root

2006-02-21 Thread Shane Hathaway
Gary Poster wrote: On Feb 18, 2006, at 3:08 AM, Shane Hathaway wrote: In my last project, reusing the ZMI seemed like a good idea. Maybe that was a bad choice. Do you start with an empty site.zcml? I haven't dared yet. :-) We started mostly from scratch, with various successes and

Re: [Zope3-dev] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 2/21/06, Benji York [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, not for the average user, bit if the hypothetical six month bug were found and those tests were decently written doctests, it would be much easier for the maintainer to follow what the test was doing. Maybe an example can help. Because I

Re: [Zope3-dev] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 11:59, Lennart Regebro wrote: Well, a doctest could explain the migration test and what has changed. Nothing changed. It's two different calendar products. It's basically an import/export from the old calendar to the new. There is nothing to explain. If nothing

Re: [Zope3-dev] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Benji York
Lennart Regebro wrote: On 2/21/06, Benji York [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, not for the average user, bit if the hypothetical six month bug were found and those tests were decently written doctests, it would be much easier for the maintainer to follow what the test was doing. Maybe an

Re: [Zope3-dev] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 2/21/06, Stephan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If nothing changed, then you need no tests. Of course things changed. The data structures changed. And the migration test is a wonderful opportunity to document those data structure changes. *sigh* Could you please try to read what I wrote?

Re: [Zope3-dev] The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 12:14, Lennart Regebro wrote: ...for a maintainer. I also completely fail to see how the latter format gives anybody any extra insight, or how this provides any sort of documentation. Of course this does not provide any benefit, because you did not document the

[Zope3-dev] buildbot failure in Zope3 trunk 2.4 Linux tlotze

2006-02-21 Thread buildbot
The Buildbot has detected a failed build of Zope3 trunk 2.4 Linux tlotze. Buildbot URL: http://buildbot.zope.org/ Build Reason: changes Build Source Stamp: 3171 Blamelist: andreasjung,hdima,jim,oestermeier,srichter,yuppie BUILD FAILED: failed failed slave lost sincerely, -The Buildbot

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Zope 3 web root

2006-02-21 Thread ksmith99
I just created mini-cms called GalleryMaker that allows a few web designer friends of mine to easily create and maintain websites for art galleries. It's a huge convenience for me to expose a few items TTW, like .css, some image files, and the contact page they are likely to swap out. Maybe this

[Zope3-dev] buildbot failure in Zope3 trunk 2.4 Windows 2000 zc-bbwin3

2006-02-21 Thread buildbot
The Buildbot has detected a failed build of Zope3 trunk 2.4 Windows 2000 zc-bbwin3. Buildbot URL: http://buildbot.zope.org/ Build Reason: changes Build Source Stamp: 3189 Blamelist: frerich,philikon,yuppie BUILD FAILED: failed failed slave lost sincerely, -The Buildbot

Re: [Zope3-dev] Simplify Skinning ready for review / work on Reducing the Amount of ZCML Directives

2006-02-21 Thread Andrew Sawyers
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 17:08 +0100, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: Hi there, a large portion of http://dev.zope.org//SimplifySkinning has been implemented in the philikon-simplify-skinning branch. Please check it out and give me feedback. The 'Browser Skin Names' vocabulary has not been

Re: [Zope3-dev] Simplify Skinning ready for review / work on Reducing the Amount of ZCML Directives

2006-02-21 Thread Dominik Huber
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: Now that this proposal has been dealt with, I will turn my focus of attention to http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/ReducingTheAmountOfZCMLDirectives. Since my initial announcement of the proposal I made some minor ammendments regarding the 'content' directive. Please

Re: [Zope3-dev] rdb: Disappearing Connection redux

2006-02-21 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:36:26PM +0100, Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote: Yes, it works, no more 'server gone away' errors! great! I'll keep an eye on memory usage. Note though, that the application I'm using sqlos for is completely read-only. I thought to understand the memory usage issue was

Re: [Zope3-dev] Simplify Skinning ready for review / work on Reducing the Amount of ZCML Directives

2006-02-21 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Andrew Sawyers wrote: a large portion of http://dev.zope.org//SimplifySkinning has been implemented in the philikon-simplify-skinning branch. Please check it out and give me feedback. The 'Browser Skin Names' vocabulary has not been implemented yet. This is a no-brainer and will follow tomorrow or

Re: [Zope3-dev] Simplify Skinning ready for review / work on Reducing the Amount of ZCML Directives

2006-02-21 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Dominik Huber wrote: Now that this proposal has been dealt with, I will turn my focus of attention to http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/ReducingTheAmountOfZCMLDirectives. Since my initial announcement of the proposal I made some minor ammendments regarding the 'content' directive. Please check them

Re: [Zope3-dev] Simplify Skinning ready for review / work on Reducing the Amount of ZCML Directives

2006-02-21 Thread Gary Poster
On Feb 21, 2006, at 7:15 PM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: Dominik Huber wrote: Now that this proposal has been dealt with, I will turn my focus of attention to http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/ReducingTheAmountOfZCMLDirectives. [...] I like those simplifications, but I have two little

[Zope3-dev] Re: merge zope-dev and zope3-dev?

2006-02-21 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:59:11PM -0500, Gary Poster wrote: | On Feb 17, 2006, at 6:26 PM, Chris Withers wrote: | | Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: | We'd have to declare the zope3-dev list for obsolete and make | people not | send messages to it. We'd just have to define a date and time. All

[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope] Re: The Zope Software Certification Program and Common Repository Proposal

2006-02-21 Thread whit
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: Andrew Milton wrote: +---[ Philipp von Weitershausen ]-- | | Handing over ownership to the ZF and therefore having signed a | Contributor Agreement are the terms of the svn.zope.org repository, just | like that code is to be made ZPL.