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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Chad Knepp wrote:

> On a personal level I'm going through a lot as well.  I'm currently in
> process of leaving Dancing Rabbit (Nov 1st) and trying to start a
> small family sized income sharing community as well as a larger
> permaculture focuses land trust.  There are a number of low level

I wish you the best of luck with this admirable and creative venture. Do you 
have land
of your/the group's ownership?

> The process of moving has
> disrupted my food/sleep/work scene and the last week of cold wet
> overcast weather with no place to get warm has left me a bit

Sounds like you're in that tent in the picture in your blog.

> I haven't really done anything HG related for almost a week, although
> the break hasn't yielded the clarity I had hoped for.  I have some
> requests and some options to consider.  I would like to submit the 33
> hours I have for payment for work up to the latest release.  The

My vote goes for you're getting paid for those 33 hours asap.

> actual time is much greater this, but a lot of it was being
> stuck/learning and I don't feel the product merits anymore.  I can
> buckle down and work on something I don't particularly enjoy, but both
> my mental outlook and the final product will be WAY better if I'm
> having fun doing it.  

Try a different tack; you should enjoy your work.

> Options:
>
>   o Keep developing HG in Zope as planned.  This is a doable option
>     although I'm currently not very excited about it.  I also am no
>     longer sure that developing in Zope will be in anyway better or
>     faster than alternate methods.

This doesn't sound like a great option anymore.

>   o Develop from Eden.  Look into ORMs and/or take a week off to write
>     one.  In my current frame of mind this sounds like what I would
>     like to do, although it means we wasted 33 hours or about 5% of
>     our current funding.

Nothing was wasted. I think this is the best new path to take. My vote is yes
for Develop from Eden.

>   o Do something even more radical like just use Medusa (ZServer) and
>     ZODB together getting rid of all the Zope cruft.  Part of the
>     reason I was so sold on Zope is that I really liked the
>     development of ack! in ZODB.  It might be interesting to integrate
>     ZODB with Twisted <twistedmatrix.com>.

Haven't a clue what this is about.

LL
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