Hi there, I was in too much of a good mood while having some vacation. So I thought I need more work to do :) I'd like to step up as the release manager for Zope2 for the 2.12 and 2.13 (trunk) releases. I've gotten an overwhelmingly positive response to this proposal from the Zope Foundation board. The ZF board was discussing a general release manager process. This discussion will become obsolete, should nobody in the Zope2 developer community have significant objections against my proposal. Unless there is a real need for it, the Zope Foundation will continue to stay out of direct decisions on the development process. Q&A Who am I? I'm going to assume everyone on this list knows me by now. Should you have any questions, please feel free to ask. You know this is Zope2 and not Plone? Indeed. I hope I have shown in the past, that I'm able to distinguish between the two. And what is appropriate and sensible for Zope2 with its many different consumers. Plone might be a major consumer of Zope2, but it's not the only one. Since I only use Zope2 as a base for Plone, I do have a certain bias. Wait, you say 2.12 and 2.13, what about 2.11 and before? Sorry, I have to pick my playground. The non-eggified Zope2 releases are very different in their release procedures. I find that process to be tedious and no fun at all, so I'm not going to spent my free time on it. Should nobody else step up to act as a release manager for those releases, they will be unsupported. Are you a new Andreas? Nobody can replace Andreas and the tremendous amount of time and dedication he has shown. Personally I do not care about evangelizing Zope2 or helping out end-users on mailing lists amongst others. So no, I'm not going to do all the work Andreas did. I'm only here to help out as a release manager, whose job it is to get stable releases out. I do read the developers mailing lists and watch the bug trackers, I don't read any users mailing list or see it as my job to fix or respond to every bug anyone reports. What about that Plone release manager position? I am currently the release manager for Plone 5. We have clarified the overall roadmap for Plone 5, and we aren't going to work on any of the formal release parts for the next 12 months or longer. The current focus is on the Plone 4.x release series, where Eric Steele serves as the release manager. So while I'm going to keep my post as a Plone release manager, it currently doesn't involve any time commitments. What about Zope 2.14 or beyond? Nobody knows yet. We will see once we get there. My formal commitment is for 2.12 and 2.13. Are you insane? Maybe a little bit. But seriously if anyone knows anyone else who would be interested in this job, speak up. I haven't seen anyone else since Andreas stepped down. And I happen to work for a company which is 100% dependent on Zope / Plone for their income stream. While I'm doing this in my spare time, I do have a very real need for Zope2 releases. I'm planning to make a 2.12.4 release on Easter Monday (April 5). You have until then to ask questions and complain :) Hanno