[Zope-dev] Zope 2.12 features

[Andreas Jung]

On 04.11.2008 18:41 Uhr, Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> Andreas Jung wrote:
>> On 04.11.2008 18:19 Uhr, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>>> On Nov 4, 2008, at 13:59 , Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>>>
>>>> If I'm not mistaken there was something about every release being
>>>> supported two years after its initial release in those discussions.
>>>>
>>>> But time went on, we haven't sticked to a time-based release schedule
>>>> and those policies haven't been written down or been followed.
>>> 2 years sounds fine to me.
>> We must be careful with such time-based policies because of the
>> installed (Plone) installations. Zope 2.8 and Zope 2.9 are definitely
>> dead horses. We must support Zope 2.10 (which is a pretty good release)
>> as long as Plone 3.X is supported. Let's say Plone 4 becomes mature in
>> late 2009 and widely used by 2010...then we can talk about getting rid
>> of 2.10 (except the Plone releases>= 3.2 would adopt Zope 2.11 or 2.12
>> at some point but I haven't heard that this is on the agenda for the
>> next Plone 3.X releases).
>
> There are currently no plans to switch to a new Zope version for neither
> Plone 3.2 or 3.3. There are no plans or even a preliminary roadmap for a
> Plone 3.4 release yet. It would be something like a summer or autumn
> 2009 release.
>
> I think we will have some kind of feedback loop here, which makes it a
> good idea from a Plone perspective to upgrade to at least Zope 2.11 for
> Plone 3.4, as Zope 2.10 by whatever date that will be, is going to be an
> old an rather unmaintained release.
>
> So sticking to support 2.10, 2.11 and trunk right now and phasing out
> 2.10 sometime next year, sounds like a good roadmap to me.
>


ok,ok - I'll stop caring to much about the Plone world :-)

Andreas
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