Dear Sree and everyone else, these are two essential questions, and the answer is not necessarily a one liner. So I will try to answer your question as good as I can.

I am looking for specification document for zope 3.0. are there any web links available for the same?

Okay, there is a good amount of documentation at http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/FrontPage. There you can find a lot of the design decisions and proposals. Furthermore, I will try to start making better documentation available, specifically in the form of UML diagrams.

When will zope 3.0 be released?

Well, this is probably the hardest question of all. The answer is: It depends. Zope 3 will be a community effort and not a Zope Corporation one. That means the more people help developing the product the earlier it will be out. I really hope that we will have some sort of first beta (Zope 2 incompatible version) in the summer. So let me use this E-mail to call out to the entire Zope community for people willing to help developing Zope 3. And no, we do not jsut need programmers, but also Information Architects and Graphic Designers, which can help us to redesign the ZMI. How to get started? 1. Sign up to the mailing lists: zope3-dev, zope-checkins, zope-coders 2. Get CVS write access from Zope Corporation. 3. Decide what you want to work on. 4. Find a "coach", who will help you out in the beginning. Actually the best would be to participate in a sprint, but I understand, that you cannot always do that, so find someone who is already an active Zope 3 developer. The Sprint schedule is at http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/SprintSched.... Additional to Jim's dates listed in this Wiki, I could also give a sprint early March during my Spring break. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management