[Zope-dev] Zope Toolkit - no more releases

[Tres Seaver]

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On 11/11/2016 09:26 AM, Hanno Schlichting wrote:

> A while back Gocept graciously hosted the first of a series of Zope 
> Resurrection sprints (now they have to host more *wink*). At the
> sprint we had a discussion about the status of the Zope Toolkit. Both 
> Jan-Wijbrand and me where present as two of the members of the old
> ZTK release team.
> 
> At the meeting we discussed whether or not it would continue to make 
> sense to "release" the ZTK as we had done in the past. The conclusion 
> from the meeting was, that there is little to no benefit of doing ZTK 
> releases anymore.
> 
> Both Zope2 and Grok have long since forked and maintain their own 
> versions of a ZTK versions list. Applications built directly on top
> of the ZTK tend to use the current ZTK versions list as a starting
> point, but fork and maintain their own versions as well. And the ZTK
> itself has matured and is very stable, so there aren't many version
> conflicts across ZTK libraries anymore, which would warrant tracking
> compatible version combinations.
> 
> With that said, there is still value in testing all the ZTK libraries
> in one place, so the zopetoolkit project on github [1] still provides
> some value. We would like to encourage anyone doing a new release of a
> ZTK library, to also provide a pull request against the zopetoolkit
> project (for example [2]), so we get a travis-ci test run for the ZTK
> as a whole.
> 
> As an alternative you can also still use the zopetoolkit project to 
> develop and test a library before doing a release, by following the 
> relevant instructions [3].
> 
> At the sprint I took a stab at updating the ZTK docs [4], so they
> aren't completely out-of-date anymore. But there are certainly still
> outdated sections in there, so any help is welcome to update them. A
> final thanks goes to Jim, who put in a redirect, so the old 
> http://docs.zope.org/zopetoolkit site now redirect to 
> https://zopetoolkit.readthedocs.io.

Excellent work!


Tres.
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