Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-26 Thread Chris Withers
Dieter Maurer wrote: Philipp von Weitershausen wrote at 2006-6-18 12:38 +0200: ... deprecation policy ... This policy allows us to move forward (which Zope 2 never really did for the the majority of those five years you mention). Although, it might help in a few cases, it is not at all necessa

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-21 Thread Dieter Maurer
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote at 2006-6-18 12:38 +0200: > ... deprecation policy ... >This policy allows us to move forward (which Zope 2 never >really did for the the majority of those five years you mention). Although, it might help in a few cases, it is not at all necessary to cast ones histo

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-16 Thread Chris Withers
Tres Seaver wrote: Unit test coverate for custom products is actually quite good. The problems are nearly always to do with "third party" products, many of which have been in "useful stable" mode since long before either deprectaions or ubiquitous unit testing were part of our community's develo

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-15 Thread Dieter Maurer
Chris McDonough wrote at 2006-6-14 14:50 -0400: > ... >PsycoPG-DA does, MySQLDA does, one of my products named >ZopeMailArchive does. "CCSQLMethods" does (because until very recently "ZSQLMethods" did, hopefully changed now). -- Dieter ___ Zope-Dev

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-15 Thread Martijn Faassen
Chris Withers wrote: Lennart Regebro wrote: So this is not a problem with deprecation period, time based releases or anything else, then. No, but the slew of deprecation warnings, proliferation of branches that need to be supported (regardless of whether they're "officially" production or n

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-15 Thread Chris Withers
Lennart Regebro wrote: So this is not a problem with deprecation period, time based releases or anything else, then. No, but the slew of deprecation warnings, proliferation of branches that need to be supported (regardless of whether they're "officially" production or not) and sheer amount o

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-14 Thread Martijn Faassen
Paul Winkler wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:47:13AM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote: I think that's the sanest policy. So it's OK if "bullshit" gets called on people putting deprecation warnings into any .1, .2, etc through .9 releases, then? This seems like the only thing that can work.

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-14 Thread Chris McDonough
On Jun 14, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote: On 6/14/06, Chris McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are problems with the deprecation period, but only for __ac_permissions__ and meta_types assuming we choose not to deprecate 'methods'. The problem in this case being that we didn

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-14 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 6/14/06, Chris McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are problems with the deprecation period, but only for __ac_permissions__ and meta_types assuming we choose not to deprecate 'methods'. The problem in this case being that we didn't use to issue deprecation warnings. ;) In any case,

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-14 Thread Chris McDonough
On Jun 14, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote: On 6/14/06, Chris McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That is the case for meta_types and __ac_permissions__ but I think you mistook the fact that "methods" followed a comment that said "handle old-style product data" for the fact that it

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-14 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 6/14/06, Chris McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That is the case for meta_types and __ac_permissions__ but I think you mistook the fact that "methods" followed a comment that said "handle old-style product data" for the fact that it was deprecated. But it never was officially deprecated,

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-14 Thread Paul Winkler
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:47:13AM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote: > I think that's the sanest policy. So it's OK if "bullshit" gets > called on people putting deprecation warnings into any .1, .2, etc > through .9 releases, then? This seems like the only thing that can > work. We can't exp

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-14 Thread Chris McDonough
On Jun 14, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Andreas Jung wrote: The general rule for Zope 2 + 3: 1 year = 2 full major releases according the current half-yr schedule OK, good! I never said something like that. I even did not comment on the this issue since I have very little insight about the internals

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-14 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 14. Juni 2006 11:24:45 -0400 Chris McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That would indeed make the deprecation period longer than 1 > year, which seems to have been the intent. This makes no sense to me. Let's start clean here. What interval of time is reasonable for the period

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-14 Thread Chris McDonough
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 17:03 +0200, Andreas Jung wrote: > > --On 14. Juni 2006 10:59:09 -0400 Chris McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So... you're saying that 2.10 isn't going to be released until December > > 2006, then? > > huh? The wiki says June/July...we are just running a bit late

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-14 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 14. Juni 2006 10:59:09 -0400 Chris McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So... you're saying that 2.10 isn't going to be released until December 2006, then? huh? The wiki says June/July...we are just running a bit late with the beta releases because Philikon needed some time for the ZP

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-14 Thread Chris McDonough
So... you're saying that 2.10 isn't going to be released until December 2006, then? That would indeed make the deprecation period longer than 1 year, which seems to have been the intent. But wouldn't that make Zope's a yearly release cycle, given that the first beta of 2.9 was released *last* Dec

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-14 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 14. Juni 2006 10:40:05 -0400 Chris McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmmm. Then I think someone needs to explain this: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/Zope2.10/CurrentStatus (Final release late June/early July 2006) You know that the project wikis were always vapourw

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-14 Thread Chris McDonough
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 15:44 +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Chris McDonough wrote: > > A year suits me fine if it were the *actual* deprecation period, rather > > than the six-month deprecation cycle as is the case with zLOG and the > > eight-month deprecation cycle as is the case with

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-14 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 6/14/06, Chris McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A year suits me fine if it were the *actual* deprecation period, rather than the six-month deprecation cycle as is the case with zLOG and the eight-month deprecation cycle as is the case with 'methods'. zLOG got deprecated for the use of lo

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Chris McDonough wrote: > A year suits me fine if it were the *actual* deprecation period, rather > than the six-month deprecation cycle as is the case with zLOG and the > eight-month deprecation cycle as is the case with 'methods'. I haven't kept track of zLOG (I'm still new to this wor

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-14 Thread Chris McDonough
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 14:09 +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > No matter what period we decide on it will always be too short for some > and too long for others. With the current setup the deprecation period > is a year, which seems like a decent middle ground. A year suits me fine if it were the *a

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-14 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 6/14/06, Max M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But the problem is that I don't fix bugs that doesn't exist for my customers. So deprecation warnings are ignored, until the product sponsor chooses upgrade. Very reasonable. If this is how OSS generally works, as I expect, then deprecations will b

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Time-based releases a good idea?

2006-06-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Max M wrote: > Andreas Jung wrote: > >At some point you have to make a cut to get rid of old crap. Fixing the > >zLOG > >issue is a straight forward approach with very little risks for the > >programmer and it won't take too much time..I don't see a major problem > >with that. > > >