[Zope-dev] Re: Zope 2.9 goals

[Tres Seaver]

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Jim Fulton wrote:
> Chris McDonough wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 10:12 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
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> ...
> 
>> We have historically always had the opportunity to introduce features
>> that preserve 100% b/c (like filestream iterators) in point releases.
>> This has worked pretty well for the last few years.
> 
> 
> I wasn't aware of this and I don't think it's a good policy.
> 
> Feature releases should be backward compatible. Bug-fix
> releases should be for bug fixes.

Agreed, in theory.  In practice, the usual handwave has been to construe
the absence of the feature as a bug (with greater or lesser justification).

 Perhaps we can be more hard-nosed about a "no new features in third-dot
releases" policy *after* we get a timeboxed release process in place?  I
have some recollection that a hard-nosed application of such a policy in
ZODB land contributed to the creation of the "dead-end" 3.3 release
line, never incorporated in any released Zope2 / Zope3 version.


Tres.
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