[Zope-PTK] FYI: Sad news for PTK

Chip Vanek chip@upcast.com
Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:02:11 -0700


Hi,

I have not been monitoring the list for 4 days now and this
news is a blow!  Mike has been a gem!  He was always quick with
an answer or pointer to people in need.  The PTK has grown at
his able hands.  I very much support Jimmie's comments below along
with sharing the contents of his lead sentence.  Prayers to Mike and his
family!

In scanning a couple of the replies to Paul's original message it
is clear that the PTK should live on and become a community project. As for
others the PTK is becoming an important part of our core activities.  The
overall architecture approach in the PTK is much easier for us to understand
then many of the other Zope products.

I would like offer our help on any activities to maintain/enhance
the PTK in this next phase. Our Zope "Zen" in still low but has improved over
the last 4 months and has been focused on the PTK nearly all of this time.  It
sounds like from Jimmie's message below that we agree that a Zope PTK based
development portal might make sense.  This would push the PTK forward in ways
to enhance the role and LoginManager areas along with encourage the review of
the basic news/link/doc object model to support
new types of content objects.  This would not need to be competitive with
SourceForge or duplicate any code management functionality.  A PTK based
Developer's would focus on organizing, classifying, and presenting content
from external news groups and complementary info/documentation sites, while
managing a hierarchy or access roles to maintain a shared quality focus.
Since DC is very much resource constrained it might not make sense to require
that DC manage this type of developers portal.

Again we are offering any help required to move the PTK forward.

Best,

Chip Vanek
Upcast Inc.    - an Internet Services Company
e-Mail: chip@upcast.com
Office: 650-625-8929
Mobile: 650-533-4417
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From: Jimmie Houchin

Hello,

A hearty thanks to Mike and my best wishes and prayers for him and his
family.

I like the idea of opening up the process. I think it would be nice to
see DC take a more shepherding type role in the Zope process. What I
mean by this is DC not necessarily bearing total development load, but
overseeing (ie: shepherding) the process. This is somewhat like Linux,
in that their could be a hierarchy of individuals with certain authority
and privileges to do certain things. Sounds kinda like Zope. :)

DC can provide a structure in which people can contribute and
contributions would work up the hierarchy or not based the contribution.

The topmost individual can be a DC employee who oversees the project.
Under this person can be any number of individuals. As many as necessary
and as few as possible. Who are trusted by DC to make decisions and
contributions. Contributions by the general public can begin at the
bottom and work up. There could be tiered privileges, (sounds kinda like
'roles'). :)

I would like to see alot of the Zope process open up like this. I would
love to see this with the documentation. As I go through the docs I make
notes in my printed copies of typos and legacy data. I would love to be
able to check out the latest snapshot of the doc and commit some
changes. It wouldn't bother me if they had to be approved by a 'trusted'
individual first.

I think this could help out the docs. I think it would be nice if there
were a means to know where people were contributing. Say I had some time
and wanted to work on a specified area. If there was a place I could
note that I was working on said module, function, etc. then others would
either be able to avoid what I am working and choose something else or
contact me to collaborate. This could help spread the effort. What comes
to my mind is like a library. The librarian knows who's reading what
based on what they have checked out.

This would be a nice feature to the bug collector. Warning I'm speaking
out of ignorance not having used it and knowing whether or not it has
it.

Oh well. I've rambled enough. Hopefully y'all can make sense of it. :)

It's time to make lemonade.

Jimmie Houchin





Paul Everitt wrote:
>
> Howdy sports fans.  I'm a bit overdue on delivering this news.
>
> Many of you know that Mike Pelletier has been the primary developer and
> owner of PTK.  As I reported last week, Mike had to take some time off
> to take care of some family matters.  Unfortunately for all of us, the
> time away needs to be more permanent.
>
> First, I'd like to give Mike a big round of applause for taking charge
> of the PTK and crafting it into something truly engaging for the Zope
> community.  Mike has been wonderful to work with and has really shown a
> great touch in being engaged on this project and staying ahead of bugs
> and features.  I wish him the best of luck in his next step.
>
> However, this puts the PTK in a bad spot.  We at Digital Creations are
> growing rapidly, but we're still resource starved for community projects
> like this.  Bluntly stated, the prognosis in the very near term isn't
> good for us to be the sole developer of the PTK.
>
> Thus, there's a clear choice at hand:
>
>   o PTK cools off for some period of time.
>
>   o PTK becomes an Open Source _development_ project, with many people
> getting checkin authority.
>
> I'll leave the commentary out for this first round and open up the floor
> for comments.
>
> --Paul
>
> Paul Everitt       Digital Creations
> paul@digicool.com  540.371.6909
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