One suggestion Casey had was to start to codify a set of rules that features have to abide by to be considered for inclusion.
Hmm, these rules seem to have several thinly veiled references to my pet project. :-) I do firmly agree with the rules in spirit, but I think a little clarification/discussion is in order so it doesn't get cut without good reason.
Of course. Note that my references were not (and were not intended to be, veiled or otherwise :) knocks on your proposal or any _particular_ proposal. My point was to say that one "big" change should be the limit for any given feature release. This can be a helpful guideline for the future: if as a developer you know that "total security rewrite" is already on the list for some feature release, then you can be pretty sure that you'll have a hard fight to get some other major change into the same release. Brian Lloyd brian@zope.com V.P. Engineering 540.361.1716 Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com