[Zope-dev] Re: Zope 2.9 goals

[Tim Peters]

[Tres Seaver]
> 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).

Like that's going to change <wink>.

> 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.

Various versions of ZODB 3.3 were shipped with various ZopeX3-3.0.0
releases, but ZODB is also used by people who don't run Zope.  The
latter is why I make "standalone" ZODB releases, which have no
dependence at all on Zope.  While I have timed ZODB releases entirely
based on what various Zopes seem to need, I try to do that in ways
that make good sense for standalone-ZODB users too.  Starting a ZODB
3.4 for new features (and new deprecations) was necessary for ZODB's
"other" users (despite not being crucial for Zope's purposes).