[Zope-dev] Release schedule for Zope 2.11/3.4?

[Jens Vagelpohl]

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On 12 Sep 2006, at 13:19, Andreas Jung wrote:
> Another point with this whole half-yr release cycle: we're going to  
> confuse
> more and more professional users about which Zope version to use  
> for what.
> I've heard from my major customer but also from other ppl. IN  
> December we would have *three* maintained versions 2.9, 2.10 and  
> 2.11. We definitely
> can't deprecate Zope 2.9 in December because this version is required
> by Plone 2.5. Plone 2.5 was just released and ppl just start to  
> migrate
> from Plone 2.1 to Plone 2.5. We have the burden  maintain Zope 2.9  
> for the
> mid-future. So my personal impression right now is: we're flooding  
> the community with new major releases and the community does not  
> adapt those
> releases. My theory: a major part of the ppl running Zope are  
> running Plone.
> on top of Zope...so with have to deal with this fact somehow.

Speaking just for the Zope 2 side: It's not just Plone users that get  
left behind. IMHO that half year cycle should be revisited. I  
strongly believe it is too short. We're overburdening the community/ 
customers with a slew of major releases at this point.

jens

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