[Zope-Coders] Back in town

[Chris McDonough]

On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 10:54, Andreas Jung wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am back from vacation. Can someone update me about the necessity of 2.7.3 
> release
> and the status of code on the SVN trunk (for a planned 2.8 released this 
> month)?

The last time I looked, the SVN trunk was in a bit of a sorry state.
Before attempting a 2.8 release, it would be helpful if a variety of
people could try to:

- reproduce this hanging symptom (instructions provided): 
  http://zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1350

- test that Zope 2.8 starts up and works properly with databases
  created under Zope 2.7 and earlier.  Lots of problems in this
  area the last time I checked.

- Confirm that mounted databases still don't work:
  http://zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1305

- Confirm that this Catalog-related issue needs to be fixed:
  http://zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1332

- Test with Plone (I found a number of places where Plone
  needed to declare its own docstrings on methods of 
  classes overridden from CMF).  See 
  http://www.plope.com/Members/chrism/plone_on_zope_head/view
  for more info.

- C