[Zope] Does anyone care whether we deprecate <Your Favourite Part of Zope>

Garito garito at sistes.net
Thu Apr 7 04:53:02 EDT 2005


David H escribió:

> Andrew Milton wrote:
>
>> I think people on this list need to realize that eventually, the 
>> direction of
>> any significantly large Open Source project is hijacked by the 
>> relatively
>> small number of people actually doing the work.
>>
>> The reasons for this are many-fold, but, normally come down to a lack of
>> communication between the developers and the users, which is realized 
>> in a
>> lack of understanding by the developers of what the users want.
>>
>> This for the most part isn't generally a problem, until, the 
>> developers start
>> to do things "for the user's own good", like remove features that are
>> "kludgey", or a "hack", or <insert some other reason>, which 
>> generally means
>> either noone wants to work on it, or some other change caused it to 
>> break, and
>> noone wants to fix it.
>>
>> Now to the credit of the Zope guys, they actually poll the users to 
>> find out,
>> rather than just announce the demise of something. However, in 
>> general once you add a feature, you can be guaranteed, that 
>> somewhere, someone is using it, so removing it will always cause a 
>> problem. So there will always be an
>> uproar when you poll.
>>
>> You're never going to be able to reduce the feature set between point
>> releases without upsetting some group of people. So why don't we stop 
>> all this
>> nonsense now, and just agree, that you're never going to do that d8) 
>> You have
>> Zope 3 to remove all the stuff you hate d8)
>>
>> In my opinion if you change something, it's your responsibility to 
>> fix the
>> resulting breakage. That's part of your responsibiliity to the rest 
>> of the
>> community (i.e. the [mostly non-paying] customers). If you don't 
>> think you
>> have this responsibility to us, then you should work on your own 
>> version of
>> Zope, where you're not impacting anyone else.
>>
>> For the record, I hate ZClasses... d8)
>>
>>  
>>
> I wish Terri Shiavo had as much compassion as ZClasses.
>
>
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