Hi all, There have been a number of threads going on today re: Zope X3.1 feature freeze and the 2.8 effort. I'd like to clarify some decisions re: Zope 2.8 Jim is the product mgr for Zope 3 and I'm it for Zope 2, so hopefully this can be considered authoritative and end part of this thread ;) - Zope 2.8 will include X3.0 (not X3.1) - The Z3 developers will have *no* extra burden or responsibility to support X3.0 beyond what they would normally do in the normal course of maintaining it for Z3-only applications. In other words, it is not the responsibility of Z3 devs to make sure Z2 tests pass, etc. - It *will be* the responsibility of the Zope 2 devs to make sure Z2 works with the version of Z3 bundled at the time. - In the next few days at most, after a few loose ends are wrapped up, we'll ask Andreas to make a 2.8 beta 1 release. While Jim still has a few things to do, people will be able to start using the beta for real work. - Anyone who cant wait for that can use the five-integration branch in SVN - As a community, we will work out how best to adapt the Zope 2 release process and schedule to that of Zope 3 going forward. We don't need to decide this immediately to continue to make progress on 2.8. I suggest an IRC meeting sometime soon to draft a proposal. Brian Lloyd brian@zope.com V.P. Engineering 540.361.1716 Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com