Bill,
It's great we're heading towards 0.9 and as such 'beta' status,
however, there is still one major feature we are sorely lacking IMO -
ORM
I have repeatedly submitted (off-list) feature complete, easy to use
ORM solutions based
ON TOP of Zend_Db_Table/Zend_Db_Select, which have gotten lost in the
shuffle.
Unfortunately, this code has since become defunct as the
Zend_Db_Table/Zend_Db_Select
have changed, making the code no longer work, but I am confident I
could resurrect it pretty
swiftly.
Because of the use of Zend_Db_Table/Zend_Db_Select within the ORM,
there is actually very
little QA needed, its essentially just a smart API wrapper at that
point :)
The only feature I had yet to implement, is lazy-loading (using
JOINs) of known relationships, reducing
the number of queries, and flattening the result object - this is
pretty easy, I just never got to it :)
Finally, I know that we currently have a release *schedule* and so
0.9 is followed by 1.0, but will we in the future
go to 1.10, 1.11 etc when we hit 1.9 or whatever.
- Davey
On Mar 2, 2007, at 2:48 AM, Bill Karwin wrote:
Hi everyone,
Our schedule calls for a code-freeze on March 15, which is in two
weeks
from today. Let's talk a bit about the process for the Beta release.
The objective for the Beta release is that we are *feature complete*.
That means that any feature ideas for ZF components will have to wait
until after 1.0 to be included in the product.
We plan to have some number of Beta Refresh Releases, e.g. 0.9.1,
0.9.2,
etc., about once every two weeks. These should include bug fixes and
improvements to documentation and tests, but no new features.
Any files that are still in incubator in ZF 0.9.0 will probably
stay in
incubator until after 1.0. We may make some exceptions in a Beta
Refresh, but they will be few and they will be evaluated carefully.
The incubator will be included in ZF 0.9.0, but not in subsequent
releases. After that release, files in the incubator will be
accessible
only via subversion and nightly snapshots of svn.
When we feel the Beta Release and Beta Refresh Releases have served
their purpose and the product seems stable and complete, we will
make a
1.0 Release Candidate. We may make additional 1.0 Release Candidates,
about once every two weeks, until we feel it is ready to be called
a 1.0
General Release.
So if we assume two Beta Releases and two 1.0 Release Candidates,
lasting two weeks each, that means we estimate the first 1.0 RC at
approximately April 12, and the final General Release at approximately
May 10. If we can, we will make this date earlier.
We have seen a steady supply of good ideas coming in, and we regret
that
we cannot include all of them in Zend Framework 1.0. But there
will be
opportunities after 1.0 to add more technology solutions.
Regards,
Bill Karwin
