[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Stable / Development branches?

[Paul Winkler]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 02:29:14PM -0400, Christian Theune wrote:
> Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> >Andreas Jung wrote:
> >>My recommendation:
> >>
> >>1 yr deprecation period as it is now
> >>1 yr + X maintenance period for older branches.
> >
> >+1
> >
> >Note that this should also extend to the Zope 3 releases. Zope 3.2 is
> >part of Zope 2.9 and will hence be used for quite some time. Yet,
> >bugfixes aren't even backported to the Zope 3.2 branch anymore...
> >
> 
> Is there any chance we can create an overview page that reflects the 
> status of what changes need to be ported where and what the status of 
> that branch is? Maybe some kind of matrixy-thingy?

+1, I'd like some way to easily know when a release is no longer
maintained.  i.e., what's the X in the above formula.

as others have observed, bugfixing is easier when you have fewer
branches to patch and test...

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Paul Winkler
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