[Zope-Coders] Upcoming releases

[Chris McDonough]

On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 02:52, Andreas Jung wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am going to release Zope 2.7.3 beta 1 on October, 27th. Please finish 
> pending jobs before the release.

FWIW, the sessioning stuff is completed for 2.7.3.  There may be minor
configuration changes, but no more major code changes.

> Zope 2.8 alpha 1 will be released during the same week. This release will 
> properly ship with a broken ZClasses
> implementation. Releasing 2.8 now is more important than waiting until 
> someone (Jim) has fixed the ZClasses.
> This does not mean that ZClasses will be gone in 2.8. They will be still 
> supported as in the latest releases.

Has anyone been able to confirm or investigate the list of "2.8 issues"
I last sent over to this list (or maybe it was zope-dev)?  FWIW, I
suspect it would be a mistake to make any release without at least
reviewing and acknowledging these.  They are repeated below.  

- 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.

Also, FWIW, Tim is on vacation and ZODB in 2.8 is in an unknown state
(it's not linked in any automated way to the ZODB 3.3 that Zope 3 is
using, so someone needs to do that merge).  It is probably a year old or
so, maybe.

- C