Zope Book, was Re: [Zope-dev] The bleak Future of Zope?

[Paul Winkler]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 04:18:17PM +0200, Peter Sabaini wrote:
> Stephan Richter wrote:
> >On Wednesday 21 April 2004 03:58, Martin Kretschmar wrote:
> 
>  -- snip --
> 
> >2. Maik is is frustrated with the releases of both Zope 2 and Zope 3, 
> >including their merging.
> 
>  -- snip --
> 
> >The situation is even more obvious with the Zope book. All the community 
> >has to do is to give a particular part/chapter/section to a couple of 
> >people for maintenance. But oh wait, that would need someone to manage 
> >this effort and *that* would be just too much work.
> 
>  -- snip --
> 
> Hmph, as one of the people that works on the Zope Book I feel a little 
> stung by a comment like this one.

Same here. Put up or shut up, whiners.

Chris McDonough put a lot of time into editing and
coordinating the 2.6 edition. If he hadn't put out a formal
call for contributors, and organized the whole thing,
it wouldn't have happened at all. I don't hear anybody volunteering
to take over that job. 

-- 

Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com