Hi there, Closing that mega thread, here are some conclusions from it:
* many people are quite willing to make sure their existing applications will still work. * people are quite willing to maintain the KGS for Zope 3 and release newer versions. In both cases, the scope of Zope 3 has decreased a lot, as most of the Zope 3 codebase will be shared with the Zope Toolkit, and the Zope 3 KGS will be based on the Zope Toolkit KGS. Concerning installation tools for Zope 3, it looks like some people are interested in this topic. We also discussed possible cooperation between the installation stories within a Zope Toolkit context. People have explicitly said they aren't interested in building-a-community related aspects of maintenance, such as writing documentation about how to install and use Zope 3, websites, etc. Concerning the ZMI, I haven't seen a lot of interest. People do use it in a minimal way to install apps, but the ZMI is rather more involved than that. I've started a new thread to explore that issue. Conclusions: It looks to me like we have support for a limited-scope Zope 3, possibly with a massively cut down ZMI that might be restricted to application installation (and documentation tools). The primary focus is to maintain existing applications, making sure they continue to work (much of that will be making sure the Zope Toolkit still works). So, it looks like Zope 3 will become a very thin layer on top of the Zope Toolkit. Technically this isn't that dissimilar from the way Grok uses the Zope Toolkit, though there's a vast difference in the community approach. Many people will just roll their own applications on top of the Zope Toolkit and may stop caring about Zope 3 altogether. Regards, Martijn _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
