[Zope-CMF] Re: Five's local sitemanager, CMF, etc

[yuppie]

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> On 22 Feb 2007, at 11:27, yuppie wrote:
> 
>> IIRC existing CMF sites stop working with that branch. That has to be 
>> resolved before releasing a beta.
> 
> Right, my oversight. I believe the issue can be boiled down to "the 
> existing CMF site needs to be turned into a Zope 3 'site' and have a 
> site manager"? Or are there more issues?

None I'm aware of.

>> In general I'm no fan of last minute merges. There should be several 
>> days between merging a big branch like that and releasing a beta.
> 
> I don't think I agree. We're only talking about a beta, the first beta. 
> Very few people will test it when it's just in SVN. One huge advantage 
> of being in lockstep with Plone is the fact that you get a whole bunch 
> of beta testers "for free" which you would never have for a CMF release 
> that is not distributed with a Plone release.

I'm not against a new release that can be shipped with the next Plone 
3.0 milestone. I just feel uncomfortable with the label 'beta'. The last 
time I checked the utility branch didn't feel like 'beta'.

Cheers, Yuppie