[Zope-dev] Clarification re: Zope X3.1, 2.8

[Jim Fulton]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Freitag, 18. März 2005 18:03 Uhr +0100 Martijn Faassen 
> <faassen at infrae.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 05:42:05PM +0100, Andreas Jung wrote:
>>
>>> --On Freitag, 18. M?rz 2005 11:22 Uhr -0500 Brian Lloyd <brian at zope.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >  - In the next few days at most, after a few loose ends are
>>> >    wrapped up, we'll ask Andreas to make a 2.8 beta 1 release.
>>> >    While Jim still has a few things to do, people will be able
>>> >    to start using the beta for real work.
>>>
>>> I think that the following outstanding to-dos for Zope 2.8 should be
>>> completed before a
>>> beta release:
>>>
>>
>> [snip todos]
>>
>> I understand that Jim won't have time to do these until mid-april. Is
>> it absolutely impossible to ship a beta which is 'non optimized' or
>> something? I mean, we got Silva and Plone running on Zope 2.8..
> 
> 
> 
> A beta release should be feature-complete means it should contain
> everything that will be part of the final release. A beta should not
> development release where things are subject to change in some way.
> We can do an alpha 2 of course with everything you want but as long
> as there is longer list of outstanding issues I won't consider the current
> SVN trunk as beta quality.

I don't think we have new features on the to do list.
These are all bug fixes or optimizations.

Jim

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