[Andreas Jung]
I am planning to make the release tomorrow (Saturday afternoon (German time :-)). So please make your final fixes very soon or cry out loud STOP if there are any show stoppers.
Barring an unexpected heart attack, an alpha-quality ZODB will be in place for you by then. Jim will not be able to merge his ZClasses changes in, so those will have to wait for a later release. All the substantive changes I needed to make were completed last night, and the overnight test runs were successful. I still need to write up ZODB NEWS, fiddle the version numbers, make a 3.4a1 release tag, and edit the svn:externals in Zope trunk to point at that tag. That's all very low risk, so just assume it's been done if I don't say anything else later.