[Zope3-dev] [OT?] zope.org

[kapil thangavelu]

On Thursday 17 October 2002 05:10 am, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> [kapil, answering about new.zope.org]
>
> > its in the works, landing time 3-4 months, i would guess.
>
> We've heard that many times before...

indeed, its a common story.

> 3 months as a time horizon is often a polite way of saying "I haven't
> started working on it yet".

the actors have been rehearsing their parts.

> Maybe you work differently, but new.zope.org has been held in front of
> me as a carrot for nearly two years now, and I'm skeptical that it
> will *ever* happen.

and i am but one of many players.

> For a long time it was planned that the new.zope.org sofware and
> design would be reusable for python.org, and I held back making
> changes to python.org becase "soon we'd be running Zope".  But it
> never happened, and as a result I gave up on this project.  It was too
> ambitious.  Has the ambition been scaled down?  If not, I expect it
> will indeed never happen.

the script is well known, the actors have their parts. the biggest problem has 
been getting the production company to setup the stage.

-k