[Zope-dev] Re: The bleak Future of Zope?

[Seb Bacon]

Personally, I think Zope3 has a great future, and will pick up a much 
larger community than Zope2 ever did, because it's better designed and 
better documented.

In general, the people who stand to gain immediately (or pretty soon) 
from Zope3 are enthusiasts; newcomers; and ZC.

However, if the process of moving away from Zope2 is not managed very 
carefully and slowly, the people who stand to lose are companies that 
already rely on Zope2.  I agree that the solution is probably to allow 
the community more control over the release cycle, web site, and 
repository.  We could follow various other models from elsewhere in the 
OSS world, and see what happens.

I believe that ZC's apparent reticence on this is because they are 
(understandably) interested in preserving control over their brand, 
which overlaps rather largely with the software.

What would be helpful is a definitive statement from ZC as to whether 
they would consider relinquishing some of their control over Zope 2. 
Perhaps, instead of a code fork, we could have a brand fork, with a 
different website, a different name, and a different release schedule 
(think Fedora?)

Seb

Andreas Jung wrote:
>> From my own prospective as developer I would like to see that Z2
> 
> development over the next
> two or three years continues because there is too much Z2 legacy code in 
> the world and not
> everyone is interested in following the migration path for Z3. To be 
> honest I doubt that large
> custom applications can be migrated with a justifiable amount of time 
> and money (just because
> they are completely bound to Z2 components and its architecture).
> 
> To clarify my standpoint: I am not an opponent of Zope3 but Zope 3 does 
> not convince me
> in the current stage and gives me little attraction for the projects I 
> am working on....it just can
> not compete with Zope 2 if you are building large-scale systems at this 
> time.
> 
> 
> Andreas
>