[ZODB-Dev] zodb.zope.org

[Martijn Faassen]

Hi there,

There's so much energy on this list recently, so I figured I'd check 
again whether we can get zodb.zope.org going. We can talk about 
performance measurements, we can talk about RelStorage, there's endless 
amounts of good stuff to say, and we can mine up quite a few older 
documents that are relevant today (and could be edited to be completely 
up to date).

I think a zodb.zope.org would be a major step forward to attract 
attention to this very cool, very mature, very powerful technology that 
we're hiding away right now. Attracting attention might attract new 
users. Attracting new users might attract new developers who want to 
hack on the ZODB. New developers might mean they might implement 
whatever makes our dreams come true. Don't you guys want your dreams to 
come true? :)

Technology-wise I don't think we will have much of a problem too. We 
need to get a hosting provider, but the Foundation can help with that. 
We'll need a simple web design - we've already been working on a design 
for zope.org that you may be able to reuse, and even getting a 
bare-bones new one won't be much work. Setting up a Plone site won't be 
much of a problem too: both the new zope.org projects and also 
grok.zope.org have buildouts and infrastructure ready for you. I suspect 
that grok.zope.org is close to what you need, and if you need more 
information I'm sure the people who worked on that can help.

What we need is one or two people who are willing to drive this effort 
so we get the site in the air and some basic content in. After that we 
can give everybody a login into that site and they can start adding 
documents.

So, is anyone interested? I had some volunteers mail me last time, and I 
still have their email addresses, so you'll have a pre-selected group of 
helpers. :)

Regards,

Martijn