The future of Zope{2,3} and Plone in Debian and Ubuntu

[Jonas Meurer]

Hey,

On 05/07/2009 Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
> * 2009-07-02 14:04, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> > I do think that the debian zope managment tools (dzhandle,
> > zope-debhelper) do a great job, and I really would be sad to see them
> > go.
> > 
> > I already did some housekeeping maintenance work for zope2.{10,11} and
> > zope-common in the past, and I intend to continue that work in the
> > future.
> 
> zope-common is really usable on for Zope2: nobody uses "instances" for the
> zope3 stack anymore. Maybe we should make a new upload to zope-common do
> remove support for the zope3 stack (which will be removed from unstable
> very soon, as a monolithic package).

yes, if dzhandle is not useful for zope3 anymore, then zope3 support
should be removed from it. i didn't use zope3 yet, so i don't know
anything about that.

> > With that roadmap we at least would have one zope2 version in
> > debian/unstable all the time.
> 
> It is possible, are you going to commit yourself to maintain it? That would
> be great: I'm not a zope2 consumer anymore, so it is quite pointless for me
> to maintain it.

in fact i already prepared and uploaded zope2.11 and also did the last
uploads of zope2.10 and zope-common. and i intend to keep on doing the
work. so yes, i somehow do feel responsible for zope2 in debian :-)

still i would be really glad to have you as backup maintainer,
especially as you have much more zope/python skills than I do.

greetings,
 jonas