On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:19 PM, yuppie <y.2011@wcm-solutions.de> wrote:
Long-term maintenance for Zope 2.13 would give these projects/deployments at least a few more years.
Yes. I'm willing to cut releases for it for quite a while. I just expect to see active maintenance from the Plone community to stop in a year or two. Judging from the ongoing maintenance we currently have for Zope 2.10 or 2.11 I don't think it's very realistic to expect much to happen once the Plone guys stop.
What I'm outlining here has of course almost nothing to do with the original idea and scope of Zope 2. Maybe at some point this should get a different name ;-)
I don't want to discuss names, but I think the next release from Zope trunk should be explicitly a new *major* release.
I think that's perfectly fine. Since I broke backwards compatibility with a number of changes I did, a major version increase is warranted. So we just got ourselves a Zope2 version 3.0. And no, naming it 4.0 or 5.0 or anything else doesn't make it any better at all. So 3.0 is the most sensible one :) Hanno