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

[Jim Fulton]

Brian Lloyd wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> There have been a number of threads going on today re: 
> Zope X3.1 feature freeze and the 2.8 effort. I'd like to 
> clarify some decisions re: Zope 2.8
> 
> Jim is the product mgr for Zope 3 and I'm it for Zope 2, so 
> hopefully this can be considered authoritative and end part 
> of this thread ;)

Absolutely

> 
>   - Zope 2.8 will include X3.0 (not X3.1)
> 
>   - The Z3 developers will have *no* extra burden or 
>     responsibility to support X3.0 beyond what they 
>     would normally do in the normal course of maintaining 
>     it for Z3-only applications. In other words, it is not 
>     the responsibility of Z3 devs to make sure Z2 tests 
>     pass, etc. 

I think this is a reasonable compromise.

...

>   - As a community, we will work out how best to adapt the 
>     Zope 2 release process and schedule to that of Zope 3 going 
>     forward. We don't need to decide this immediately to continue 
>     to make progress on 2.8. I suggest an IRC meeting sometime 
>     soon to draft a proposal.

I would like to see the Zope 2, Zope 3, and ZODB release cycles
combined, at least for feature (dot zero) releases, starting
with Zope 2.9 and X3.2. That is, I'd like them to have the
same release cycle.  These should, of course, be time-based
releases.  My preference is for every 6 months, but I'm more than
willing to try 4.  My worry is that if the cycles are too short,
there will be inadequate time for alpha and beta releases.  Plus,
a 6-month cycle would allow us to say that deprecated features
will be supported for a year.  (Of course, we could do that anyway
if we supported 3 releases instead of 2.)

Thanks Brian!

Jim

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