AW: [Zope3-dev] Re: Can we provide a Zope3 Collective?

[Stephan Richter]

On Friday 02 July 2004 02:28, Joachim Werner wrote:
> One thing I am also desperately missing for Zope X3 is a detailled roadmap.

We have tried this several times.

> We need a feature matrix that clearly shows what's still missing in X3
> and who is planning to implement it by when.

See TODOLATER.txt for a long list of outstanding projects. In our experience, 
assigning a who and when to these projects is impossible, since this is a 
community effort. We have tried to do this several times and failed. Heck, we 
can't even get the X3.0.0 release out of the door, because we not having 
enough volunteers to do the final touches.

> That way as an "end user" I can see if Zope X3 already does what I want
> it to do, and as a potential contributor I see where I can help.

See CHANGES.txt for implemented features. As I pointed out TODOLATER.txt has a 
long list of projects. If you write to the mailing list I can point out many 
others as well.

> - indexing/cataloging
> - whatever is going to replace the thing called "ObjectHub"

There was work done on a branch to fix this and reintroduce it in the trunk.

> - generic LDAP adapter
> - LDAP authentication

Nicholas Seckar seems to work on that now.

> - session support

This is there in SVN, but in a bad shape. This is actually high up on Jim's 
list.

> - fully working WebDAV

Up to people to finish.

> - SOAP for Zope

I think there is not enough interest in this.
>
> The KDE feature plans are a good example. Though we might make it more
> tabular and have columns for the different releases to indicate what the
> target release for a feature is:

But KDE has many more developers and can therefore keep deadlines (which is 
very impressive and unique in the OS world).

> I'm willing to help maintain such a page ...

Well, I still think a issue tracker is the way to go, like I had setup on 
zope3.org before. I need to update the old bugtracker and bring it up again. 
Then it would be great, if you can help keeping it up-to-date.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
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