[Zope-dev] Re: Proposal: Merge philikon-aq branch into Zope trunk

[Martin Aspeli]

Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>> Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>>> Merging it into Zope trunk will get it into the Zope 2.12 release 
>>> which is at this point not scheduled yet, but is unlikely to get a 
>>> release before early 2009. This should give us plenty of time to test.
>> This sounds good. Here's another idea, though: In accordance with 
>> "release early and often", how about scheduling the 2.12 release shortly 
>> after the 2.11 one? So the only "new" thing in 2.12 would be the 
>> philikon-aq branch (it would still ship with the same Zope 3 libraries 
>> as 2.11, etc.).
> 
> I suspect we want to do something about the eggification story of Zope 2 
> for Zope 2.12 as well. Figuring out the approach and documenting it 
> might take some additional time. I don't see that releasing another Zope 
> 2.13 shortly after 2.12 makes a lot of sense.

Why don't we get started on that, too, then?

I think eggification of Zope 2 is relatively easy, and most of the 
necessary R&D has already been done. In fact, a lot of the eggs exist 
already.

I wonder if Philipp would be amenable to writing a proposal on this, and 
get Chris McDonough's input.

Martin

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