On Tuesday 17 May 2005 08:43, Martijn Faassen wrote: > Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote: > > Maik Röder wrote: > >>Before endorsing the project I just need to be sure that there is > >>a healthy community. > > > > catch-22 :-) to have a healthy community you need a project that is not > > just vapourware and more than just people with good intentions who'll > > wait until others do something. You need commitment from all parts. > > It's indeed a chicken and egg situation; healthy communities give people > enough trust to do a commitment and commitment from people and > organizations tends to build healthy communities.
I think the easiest way to earn trust is for the initiators to reach beyond their comfort level by looking at competing projects. I know that this is hard, since one is always convinced that his/her project is the best one. (I feel the same way. ;-) To be more concrete, I think a good first step would be to create a matrix of features in various Zope-based CMSs. This might also demonstrate the parts the community wants to work on first. Oh, I almost forgot. Even though I have said this many times before, please have a look at Tiks. It is a Zope 3 based CMS that is already in production. It might not be what you want, but I am pretty sure it has solved some tricky problems already. It also follows all the Zope 3 coding guidelines (as far as I can tell), including doctests. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com