-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jim Fulton wrote:
Tres Seaver wrote:
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Jim Fulton wrote:
Chris McDonough wrote:
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 10:12 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
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We have historically always had the opportunity to introduce features that preserve 100% b/c (like filestream iterators) in point releases. This has worked pretty well for the last few years.
I wasn't aware of this and I don't think it's a good policy.
Feature releases should be backward compatible. Bug-fix releases should be for bug fixes.
Agreed, in theory. In practice, the usual handwave has been to construe the absence of the feature as a bug (with greater or lesser justification).
Perhaps we can be more hard-nosed about a "no new features in third-dot releases" policy *after* we get a timeboxed release process in place? I have some recollection that a hard-nosed application of such a policy in ZODB land contributed to the creation of the "dead-end" 3.3 release line, never incorporated in any released Zope2 / Zope3 version.
Which is just fine IMO.
Such an outcome might be "acceptable", but could hardly be called "desirable." I'll note that a *big* pile of potentially useful ZODB features were pretty much inaccessible to the Zope2 community from the date of the first 3.3a1 release, nearly two years ago[1], until the release of Zope 2.8 last month. This timespan, eerily enough, coincides almost exactly with the life of the Zope 2.7 release cycle[2]. I know how and why the loss happened (I helped *make* it happen, I'm afraid), but I don't want it to happen again. Moving to time-based releases should help with the problem, but we aren't there yet, and won't be for a year (a successful delivery in December could be a fluke). [1] \ http://www.zope.org/Products/ZODB3.3/NEWS.html#what-s-new-in-zodb3-3-3-alpha... [2] http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.7.6/CHANGES.txt Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 202-558-7113 tseaver@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCswEA+gerLs4ltQ4RAmv6AJ98s+dbAbB81g8lRpcRaDHjcyVpMACgq0Ak GK6MYOUvPrazO5oJDn5xXIo= =1SET -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----