AW: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Release cycles

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Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Betreff: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Release cycles
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> the recent discussion about future Zope3 releases worries me.
> Here's an 
> informal proposal for settling this:
> 
[...]
> 
> Advantages
> 
>  - shorter release cycles
> 
>  - new features appear in releases quicker
> 
>  - contributors get to use features that they implemented earlier

Or they will implement it in their own repository ;-(

[...]
> Those who are involved into Plone I'd like to remind about
> the 2.0 release. 
> Initially a 1.1 release was planned after 2.0. It provided a 
> relatively small 
> set of improvements. Before someone could put his foot down, 
> lots of stuff was 
> checked in and 1.1 started to blow up. Initially a 1.1 
> release was planned for 
> September 2003; 6 months later, in March 2004, it was 
> released, but as 2.0 
> because of the many additions. Many people who based their 
> business on Plone 
> and needed something like 1.1 in late 2003 (including me) 
> critized the release 
> management. Everyone learned their lesson and Plone now has 
> an official release 
> manager.

That was one of the reason why we quit working with plone.
I was to critical for our company to build our business
on this situation. (was, but now it seams to be better)

[...]

> Looking forward to your comments,
> 
> Philipp

1+ 
Thanks for to take a look into my brain.
That's exactly what I was thinking about.

I think this is a important part for developers which work
with the zope3 application server. And I'm shure if we 
have a shorter releases we get more contributers in 
the future. 

Regards
Roger