[Zope-dev] Time-based releases a good idea?

[Andreas Jung]

--On 14. Juni 2006 07:32:42 +0100 Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> 
wrote:

> Florent Guillaume wrote:
>> Yes but the deprecation has been there for a while, and the third party
>> product developers have been ignoring the warning. Their loss.
>> And this is only for Zope 2.10 which I doubt these third party products
>> are using at the moment.
>> If we don't remove things at some point, there's no point in doing
>> deprecation warnings.
>
> This and things like it have been niggling me for a while now and I guess
> this finally prompted me to write a mail on it...
>
> I know the good reasoning behind the time-based releases, but have they
> really worked out?

Yes and No.

Yes: It's a must to have Zope 2 and Zope 3 in sync. Zope 2 development got 
a some more momentum again..
No: Half a yr is a short time. Major changes happened right short before 
the first beta release. Not all Zope users won't follow this fast release 
cycle.





> For me, the fact that Zope 2.9.3 still emits
> deprecation warnings on a fresh install (zLOG...) is a pretty bad sign.

Deprecation warning is only annoying but not a bad sign. Deprecations are 
not a functional problem.



>
> Now, this could all be seen as fair game, Zope _is_ going through a
> period of big and positive change as Zope 2 and Zope 3 converge, things
> like zLOG finally get put to rest and we move onto newer more powerful
> versions of python.

right...I did not think that we deprecated and removed something without 
having a reasonable replacement...or did we?

>
> If that's the case, then I hope we, as a community, "get there" at some
> point and can get back to focusing on the stability of the good ol' days.

+1, +1, +1

Andreas

PS
@all developers: I hope you don't forget the bugday tomorrow :-))
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