[gentoo-dev] Fwd: net-zope maintenance

[gentoo-dev] Fwd: net-zope maintenance

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

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From: Alfredo Tupone <tupone@gentoo.org>
Date: Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 13:56
Subject: Re: net-zope maintenance
To: djc@gentoo.org

I am not more interested on plone/zope from portage

Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org> ha scritto:
>Hi there,
>
>I just completed removing the python herd from the metadata of about
>70 packages in the net-zope category (all of these packages are still
>nominally maintained by the net-zope herd). This happened due to the
>fact that the majority of the python team isn't interested in
>maintaining Zope-related packages (there's 200+ of them in the
>net-zope category), and a different herd already exists that should in
>theory be able to take care of them.
>
>The net-zope herd nominally has two members: radek and tupone. From
>grepping changelogs, radek hasn't committed anything in net-zope since
>2007. tupone committed one change in net-zope in 2010 and 4 in 2009.
>Instead, most of the recent work has been done by arfrever, who has
>recently been retired.
>
>Given this situation, I'm not sure it makes sense for us to keep all
>of those packages in the tree. Except for dependencies on
>zope-interface, which is pretty accepted and will keep being
>maintained by the python team in addition to the net-zope team, not
>much is depending on net-zope packages, either:
>
>app-admin/zprod-manager depends on net-zope/zope (hasn't been
>committed to since 2008)
>
>dev-python/rdflib has an optional dependency on net-zope/zodb, in
>addition to many other storage backends
>
>media-libs/FusionSound for whatever reason blocks net-zope/zodb
>
>(There are two packages in dev-python that depend on zope-testing, but
>those are actually only dependencies of net-zope packages again.)
>
>Zope maintenance is a lot of work and delays other stuff indefinitely:
>
>https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148333 (blockers for Python 2.5)
>https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335248 (new Plone requires
>80-100 new ebuilds)
>
>And there are 3 open security bugs from 2011 with vulnerabilities in
>Zope and/or Plone.
>
>So unless someone steps up to takes a serious whack at all of this
>stuff, perhaps we should just cut it from the portage tree.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Dirkjan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: net-zope maintenance

[Markos Chandras]

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On 08/13/2011 12:58 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> (forwarding to the list...)
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alfredo Tupone
> <tupone@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 13:56 Subject: Re:
> net-zope maintenance To: djc@gentoo.org
> 
> I am not more interested on plone/zope from portage
> 
In this case I see no reason to keep them around any longer. Since
treecleaners are a understaffed could you please take care of the
removal? If not, please open a bug for removal request and we will
process it in time.

- -- 
Regards,
Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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