[ZF] manuel access

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Wed Feb 20 16:26:49 UTC 2013


On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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> On 02/20/2013 10:55 AM, Jim Fulton wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On 02/20/2013 09:49 AM, Benji York wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Chris Withers
>>>> <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> On 20/02/2013 14:18, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>>>>> I think there should be a process for moving projects out of
>>>>>> the ZF.
>>>>>
>>>>> For this one, can I suggest the following lightweight process:
>>>>>
>>>>> Benji forks from the zopefoundation repo on GitHub.
>>>>>
>>>>> Someone from Zope Foundation (Stefan?) then does a commit in
>>>>> the zopefoundation GitHub repo that deletes all files on master
>>>>> and replaces with a README.txt pointing to Benji's fork.
>>>>>
>>>>> Work then happens in Benji's repo going forward, and he controls
>>>>> who has access to what.
>>>>
>>>> That sounds like a reasonable plan that, as far as I can tell,
>>>> accounts for the legalities involved.  I.e., the ZF has the code
>>>> but doesn't want it any more and I "fork" the project and
>>>> continue development.
>>>
>>> Go ahead with the fork.  We will vote to approve the separation at
>>> Thursday's board meeting.
>>
>> Is approval required?  I don't think the ZF can prevent forks, given
>> the ZPL.
>>
>> OTOH, Jen's raised some valid concerns last August about the
>> representation of the ZF's interest in forks.  I'd like to see this
>> clarified.
>
> I meant to have the board approve the removal of the code, not the fork.
>  Since the code was checked in under a contributor agreement, the
> Foundation has joint ownership of the copyright:  effectively, we will be
> abandoning that interest.

The code wouldn't be removed.  It would still exist in the repository.
Or are you suggesting removal of the git repo? Even then, it would
still be in the svn repository.

Jim

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