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

[Jens Vagelpohl]

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On 12 Sep 2006, at 14:44, Martijn Faassen 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.
>
> That is a good argument for lengthening the release cycle. (as  
> opposed to say, people will fix more bugs if the release cycle is  
> longer)
>
> What do you think about a 9 month release cycle?

+1 from me

jens


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