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. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org