[ZWeb] [IDEA] project urls

[Paul Everitt]

I've let this idea percolate for a while, and I gotta admit that I like 
it.  Here's my attempt to trace it back to my goals.

I think Zope should grow 10x in the next year, and getting there 
requires spreading the responsibility around.  This means that Zope 
needs to be broken down into areas of responsibility.

Zope3 has the same goals: eat Zope one bite at a time, remove or replace 
the pieces you don't like, etc.

In an email on the Eurozope list, I floated the following approach:

"""
I like this point.  I've been keeping a list of the major "domains"
that might be a part of Zope3.  The list is on a whiteboard at work,
but off the top of my head: internationalization, persistence,
cataloging, workflow, user management, packaging, templates, object
relational, security, ...

Zope3 has a goal of being more modular.  We also have a goal to open
up more to the community at let non-ZC people have leadership.  Under
this bullet, we'd have a diagram on the Zope3 page listing each domain
and the 1-3 people in charge of that domain.  Within that domain we'd
list some activities and who's running them.  Each domain would manage
the APIs in that domain, the unit tests, the docs, etc.
"""

This sounds like some overlap with your approach.

--Paul

Simon Michael wrote:

> A list + wiki form the short-term and longer-term memory of a distinct
> "project". Such a project may benefit from a collector/tracker (a more
> structured kind of memory useful in certain situations)[*] and other
> useful features (realtime chat channel).  Continuing this way you can
> put together a sourceforge-like project if you want.
> 
> Whether projects consist of one such "module" (bear with me) or many,
> I propose that projects automatically receive a distinct home page
> which describes the project and links to all the project's modules. In
> this example:
> 
> http://projects.zope.org/zope3-dev
> 
> Modules' canonical urls should be as described previously.  
> They should also be reachable via
> http://projects.zope.org/zope3-dev/{list,wiki,collector,...}.
> 
> In the degenerate case where a project is simply a list or a wiki, the
> project page may want to just redirect there.
> 
> Comments ?
> 
> -Simon
> 
> 
> [*] current zwiki.org tries to provide these three, with high
> integration, using a single dynamic wiki as the substrate.
> Another way of doing it, which I think has promise.
> 
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