[Zope] Zope2 - pro/contra

[Tom Gross]

Hello

When it comes to Zope people seem to have 2 opinions. (Maybe that's the 
2 in the name ;-) ). A lot of people seem to use it (with or even 
without Plone) and loving it and a lot of people call it dead because 
there is (almost) no new development. At least on the Zope package 
itself. I myself like to work with Zope too but I know web development 
changed in the last couple of years and there are other options around.
I don't know if it is worth the thing but to have a future Zope needs

  - A MAINTAINER!!!
  - MARKETING!
  - DOCUMENTATION!
  - Usability improvements (frameless, responsive ZMI)
  - Technical improvements (Port to Python3, WSGI, ...)

The technical improvements could be organized/financed with a pledgie 
the others are possibly harder to solve.

My 2 cents
Tom


On 07.03.15 16:30, Simon Michael wrote:
> I've sent you a download link.
>
> I’m somewhat familiar with it, as I managed at least the zope2 wiki (and
> wrote Zwiki), so please call on me for help as you need, on the mail
> list or directly. I’m sm in the #zope IRC channel. Thanks for working on it.
>
> -Simon
>
> On 3/7/15 7:17 AM, Simon Michael wrote:
>> Hi Bernard,
>>
>> great! You'll hear more from me in the next couple of days.
>>
>> -Simon
>>
>> On 3/7/15 2:49 AM, Bernard Devlin wrote:
>>> Hi Simon
>>>
>>> I'd like to work on hosting the wiki information.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Bernard
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Simon Michael <simon at joyful.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nice discussion!
>>>>
>>>> I don't know about docs.zope.org, but I'll just add a status update on
>>>> the zope wikis, which held quite a lot of historical and reference
>>>> information. They used to be hosted by Zope Corp or maybe Zope
>>>> Foundation, they went dark a few years back and no-one complained, more
>>>> recently Fred Drake sent me a snapshot of their content, I forgot about
>>>> it for a while, now I should probably revive and host them in read-only
>>>> mode, as soon as I find a tuit. If anyone else would like to work on it
>>>> sooner, just let me know.
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>> -Simon
>
>
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