[Zope-CMF] Re: CMF 2.1

[Florent Guillaume]

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> I just looked over the CMF roadmap document since we're supposed to have 
> a 2.1 beta in a matter of weeks and now I'm wondering if this is 
> possible/desirable right now:
> 
> http://www.zope.org/Products/CMF/docs/roadmap
> 
> First of all, some of the work items on the list are half-finished or 
> still off on some branch. Secondly, when comparing our roadmap to the 
> Plone roadmap...
> 
> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap
> 
> ... I'm not sure if we need a 2.1 right now. We seem to be producing 
> one-off release branches that are either not used at all or used 
> sporadically by specific projects. By the way, Florent, do you guys have 
> such a roadmap doc that I can look at once in a while? Something that at 
> least says "version X is planned for Y and will run on CMF version Z".

Not as such, for now the CPS 3.4 line is in maintenance mode and will 
keep using CMF 1.6.1.

CPS 4 is in heavy development and doesn't yet require changes from the 
CMF features present in 1.6, appart maybe from GenericSetup bugfixes 
w.r.t. unicode. We use z3 views and events in CPS, but don't really 
require CMF to use them (we hardly use CMF-provided skins anymore).

We certainly don't require a 2.1 release anytime soon.

The current roadmap is here:
http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/milestone/CPS%204

Florent


> 
> Also, one of the highly desirable items on the list, the local skin 
> customization, has an outside dependency that we need to wait on.
> 
> So, what's the consensus? Do we postpone 2.1 to get more things done? Do 
> we cut the list of planned features down and create yet another release 
> branch that might not even be used? I'm hoping this discussion can 
> foster more active collaboration on roadmaps between the different "CMF 
> customers". There's no sense following a strict time-based policy that 
> is currently out of sync with what the "customers" want/need.
> 
> jens
> 


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