[Zope3-dev] Re: give ability to get rid of deprecated code

2006-09-12 Thread Florent Xicluna
Benji York benji at zope.com writes: Florent Xicluna wrote: I am working on a 'light' version of Zope You may want to contribute toward eggifying Zope 3 for the next release. Once Z3 is sufficiently broken into individual components, projects can use as few (or many) as they need.

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: give ability to get rid of deprecated code

2006-09-12 Thread Baiju M
On 9/12/06, Florent Xicluna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benji York benji at zope.com writes: Florent Xicluna wrote: I am working on a 'light' version of Zope You may want to contribute toward eggifying Zope 3 for the next release. Once Z3 is sufficiently broken into individual components,

Re[3]: [Zope3-dev] possible bug in zope.wfmc

2006-09-12 Thread Adam Groszer
Hello Jim, As I think it further, even if I would implement the exception and so transitions, there might still be a chance that an activity does not have a valid outgoing transition. These transitions can also have conditions. Still I have to read through the WFMC specifications. Monday,

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hi there, Thanks for doing this work, Christian. I'm in favor of going for Zope 3.4 on a timely basis. Concerning the delay of Zope 3.3, I think we should consider whether we're not too perfectionistic. On the one hand core developers seem to be happy to use the trunk for development

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: 3.3 release?

2006-09-12 Thread Martijn Faassen
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: Christian Theune wrote: what's the status on the release? We should have an RC and maybe a release in one or two weeks. Yup. We will be making an RC this week. Great! I started a discussion on What Went Wrong (tm) in Christian's roadmap thread. I'd be happy

[Zope3-dev] Re: Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Martijn Faassen wrote: Thanks for doing this work, Christian. I'm in favor of going for Zope 3.4 on a timely basis. I wouldn't mind that. Concerning the delay of Zope 3.3, I think we should consider whether we're not too perfectionistic. On the one hand core developers seem to be happy to

[Zope3-dev] Release schedule for Zope 2.11/3.4?

2006-09-12 Thread Andreas Jung
Hi all, since we are three month late with the current releas, it would make sense to reschedule Zope 2.11/3.4 for July (or was it June) next yr?! If we want to stick with the half-yr cycles, we need to schedule the next release for around March/April next yr. Thoughts? Andreas

[Zope3-dev] Re: Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Martijn Faassen
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: [snip] Anyway, if the Gnome project can do time-based releases *on the date* we should be able to do it too. I bet the Gnome project has members who are actually paid to do this kind of release management, though. They probably have more resources than we

[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Release schedule for Zope 2.11/3.4?

2006-09-12 Thread Martijn Faassen
Andreas Jung wrote: since we are three month late with the current releas, it would make sense to reschedule Zope 2.11/3.4 for July (or was it June) next yr?! Is the reasoning here that since a release cycle has taken 9 months, so should the next? I'm not convinced expanding the release cycle

[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Release schedule for Zope 2.11/3.4?

2006-09-12 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 12. September 2006 12:28:10 +0200 Martijn Faassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Jung wrote: since we are three month late with the current releas, it would make sense to reschedule Zope 2.11/3.4 for July (or was it June) next yr?! Is the reasoning here that since a release cycle

[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Release schedule for Zope 2.11/3.4?

2006-09-12 Thread Martijn Faassen
Andreas Jung wrote: --On 12. September 2006 12:28:10 +0200 Martijn Faassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Anyway, if the main thing holding up *this* release is bugfixes, doing a new release in 3 months shouldn't be a problem, as after all, we've already fixed those bugs this time around. :)

[Zope3-dev] Re: Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Martijn Faassen
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: That doesn't mean we should postpone a final release over and over again, just because we don't have the resources. In fact, because we don't have the resources, we should release a final anyway and catch up with bugs in, well, bugfix

[Zope3-dev] Re: Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Martijn Faassen wrote: Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: That doesn't mean we should postpone a final release over and over again, just because we don't have the resources. In fact, because we don't have the resources, we should release a final anyway and catch up with

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 9/12/06, Martijn Faassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about a policy where we fix bugs until the release date, and then on the release date, we actually release? Any bugs that are still in it are going to go with it. I totally agree. My feeling is that the x.x.0 release this time will be

[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Release schedule for Zope 2.11/3.4?

2006-09-12 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 12. September 2006 13:06:05 +0200 Martijn Faassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Jung wrote: --On 12. September 2006 12:28:10 +0200 Martijn Faassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Anyway, if the main thing holding up *this* release is bugfixes, doing a new release in 3 months

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sep 12, 2006, at 5:25 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: Hi there, Thanks for doing this work, Christian. I'm in favor of going for Zope 3.4 on a timely basis. Concerning the delay of Zope 3.3, I think we should consider whether we're not too perfectionistic. On the one hand core

[Zope3-dev] Re: Release schedule for Zope 2.11/3.4?

2006-09-12 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sep 12, 2006, at 5:47 AM, Andreas Jung wrote: Hi all, since we are three month late with the current releas, it would make sense to reschedule Zope 2.11/3.4 for July (or was it June) next yr?! If we want to stick with the half-yr cycles, we need to schedule the next release for

[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Release schedule for Zope 2.11/3.4?

2006-09-12 Thread Martijn Faassen
Andreas Jung wrote: --On 12. September 2006 13:06:05 +0200 Martijn Faassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Jung wrote: --On 12. September 2006 12:28:10 +0200 Martijn Faassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Anyway, if the main thing holding up *this* release is bugfixes, doing a new

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:40 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 5:25 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: [snip] Anyway, if the Gnome project can do time-based releases *on the date* we should be able to do it too. Maybe they have more volunteers. Yes. They also have a

[Zope3-dev] Re: zc.buildout: When is recipe.install run?

2006-09-12 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, [posting this to zope3-dev too so the discussion thread there is somewhat intact] Jim Fulton wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:32 AM, Daniel Nouri wrote: While using buildout in our recent project[1] we have discovered that some recipe's `install` method is being run although neither the

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Christian Theune
Hi, Jim Fulton wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:40 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 5:25 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: [snip] Anyway, if the Gnome project can do time-based releases *on the date* we should be able to do it too. Maybe they have more volunteers.

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Christian Theune wrote: ... Ack. One thing that bothers me (and it's totally possible that I'm missing some documentation from zope.org) is that the overall process isn't well documented, so it's hard for me (and probably other people) to jump in and do stuff. Um.

[Zope3-dev] Re: zc.buildout: When is recipe.install run?

2006-09-12 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: ... The 'svn update' usecase is the reason we could think of why install is always called, even if recipe and buildout config hasn't changed. Right now the install method can be called in a number of different cases: a) when the part

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Martijn Faassen
Jim Fulton wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:40 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: [snip] One problem we have is getting things to be tested. It hardly motivates people to test for and report bugs if their reports don't affect he release. I think we have a serious problem that needs to be addressed. I

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Christian Theune
Hi, Jim Fulton wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Christian Theune wrote: ... Ack. One thing that bothers me (and it's totally possible that I'm missing some documentation from zope.org) is that the overall process isn't well documented, so it's hard for me (and probably other people) to

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:57 AM, Jim Fulton wrote: I still think our quality standards for a release have been too high. Getting people to fix more bugs is good, sure, but perhaps we should separate this at least somewhat from the release itself. Sorry, I agree very much. I'd be willing

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Christian Theune wrote: Then your idea of perfection and mine are far apart. Letting bugs languish for months or even years is not acceptable. Ignoreing bugs reported during beta testing, when we get too little testing to begin with is unacceptable. I agree on

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:40 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: [snip] One problem we have is getting things to be tested. It hardly motivates people to test for and report bugs if their reports don't affect he release. I think we

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Christian Theune
Jim Fulton wrote: Sometimes it feels to me that when Stephan or you prioritize a bug that you have a rough understanding of the solution, You are mistaken. Stephan should speak up on his criteria, but I have the impression that it is guilty until proven innocent. That is, I think he marks

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:53 AM, Christian Theune wrote: Hi, Jim Fulton wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Christian Theune wrote: ... Ack. One thing that bothers me (and it's totally possible that I'm missing some documentation from zope.org) is that the overall process isn't well

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sep 12, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Christian Theune wrote: - I think we want a release manager. You're a genius! I'll just snap my fingers. What happened after you snapped? :) You became the release manager. Welcome aboard! Does the application of irony indicate that we (I) should get over

[Zope3-dev] Working on the 3.3.0rc1 release

2006-09-12 Thread Jim Fulton
I'm assuming that the branch is stable and ready. I only ask because a fix was just checked in. If I need to wait, please let me know asap. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Christian Theune
Hi, Jim Fulton wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Christian Theune wrote: - I think we want a release manager. You're a genius! I'll just snap my fingers. What happened after you snapped? :) You became the release manager. Welcome aboard! Can I make you my assistant? Do I get free

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Release schedule for Zope 2.11/3.4?

2006-09-12 Thread Martijn Faassen
Benji York wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: [snip] What do you think about a 9 month release cycle? If we can't manage a 6 month cycle, 9 months is the longest release cycle I think is acceptable. Agreed. I'd like to avoid longer than 9 months too. Personally I think we should just release

Re: [Zope3-dev] Working on the 3.3.0rc1 release

2006-09-12 Thread Christian Theune
Hooray! Jim Fulton wrote: I'm assuming that the branch is stable and ready. I only ask because a fix was just checked in. If I need to wait, please let me know asap. I think there is nothing going on that can't wait until after the release. I also wanted to state something that I verified

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Jim Fulton wrote: [snip] I would go further. I would not unfreeze the trunk until until we've cleaned up all open bugs, either by fixing them or rejecting them. -1 Why, do you think we should allow old bugs to languish forever? I think this would be a bad thing to do after every

Re: [Zope3-dev] Working on the 3.3.0rc1 release

2006-09-12 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sep 12, 2006, at 11:05 AM, Christian Theune wrote: Hooray! Jim Fulton wrote: I'm assuming that the branch is stable and ready. I only ask because a fix was just checked in. If I need to wait, please let me know asap. I think there is nothing going on that can't wait until after the

Re: [Zope3-dev] Working on the 3.3.0rc1 release

2006-09-12 Thread Christian Theune
Hi again, Christian Theune wrote: Hi, Jim Fulton wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 11:05 AM, Christian Theune wrote: Hooray! Jim Fulton wrote: I'm assuming that the branch is stable and ready. I only ask because a fix was just checked in. If I need to wait, please let me know asap. I think

[Zope3-dev] 3.3.1 release planning

2006-09-12 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hi there, I understand that the 3.3.0 release is coming out next week. As the 3.3.1 release manager volunteer, I ask everybody to do the following: If you find a bug in Zope 3, please try fixing it in Zope 3.3 branch first, and then forward port it to trunk. The goal here to make sure we fix

[Zope3-dev] Re: 3.3.1 release planning

2006-09-12 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sep 12, 2006, at 11:56 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: Hi there, I understand that the 3.3.0 release is coming out next week. Hopefully, that depends depends on how the release candidate goes. As the 3.3.1 release manager volunteer, Yay! I ask everybody to do the following: If you find

Re: [Zope3-dev] Working on the 3.3.0rc1 release

2006-09-12 Thread TAHARA Yusei
Hi. At Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:43:27 +0200, Christian Theune wrote: Then this is a small reminder to Yusei, that the 3.3 branch has been tagged for RC candidate and only *very critical* changes are allowed to go there until we do the release. Oups, Sorry I missed the announcement. I'll be more

[Zope3-dev] Re: Release schedule for Zope 2.11/3.4?

2006-09-12 Thread Martin Aspeli
Hanno Schlichting wrote: What do you think about a 9 month release cycle? Based on the Plone experience I think this is a good compromise, between release often and stable releases. The Plone experience as I see it is that we get some measure of contribution fatigue. Take Plone 2.5 and

[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Release schedule for Zope 2.11/3.4?

2006-09-12 Thread Martin Aspeli
Benji York wrote: Personally I think we should just release the trunk every six months (with a list of known bugs) and that be it. (I'm speaking of Zope 3 here, I don't know enough about the dynamics of the Zope 2 ecosystem to comment there.) What good could that possibly do? For the

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Zope 3.2 maintenance

2006-09-12 Thread Dieter Maurer
Hanno Schlichting wrote at 2006-9-11 23:06 +0200: ... You got it backwards ;) I only forward-port any changes from older branches to the more recent ones, but never do any backports. The reason I do this is because before this, Plone developers tended to only fix a bug on the trunk or the latest

[Zope3-dev] Re: 3.3.1 release planning

2006-09-12 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Martijn Faassen wrote: Hi there, I understand that the 3.3.0 release is coming out next week. As the 3.3.1 release manager volunteer, I ask everybody to do the following: If you find a bug in Zope 3, please try fixing it in Zope 3.3 branch first, No, please fix it in Zope 3.2 first. As

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Zope 3.2 maintenance

2006-09-12 Thread Dieter Maurer
Hanno Schlichting wrote at 2006-9-11 23:18 +0200: ... Yes. We don't have a Hanno for Zope 3. And even if there would be someone willing to do this job, a good understanding of most of the internals would be a prerequisite, as merging something which you do not understand is indeed potentially

[Zope3-dev] Re: 3.3.1 release planning

2006-09-12 Thread Christian Theune
Hi, I had an interesting comment from Chris McDonough on a variation how to handle the RC. Instead of blocking changes to the maintenance branch, we could create a temporary RC branch that only the release manager allows checkins to. In this scenario, the maintenance branch stays open for

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 10:13, Jim Fulton wrote: Sometimes it feels to me that when Stephan or you prioritize a bug   that you have a rough understanding of the solution, You are mistaken.  Stephan should speak up on his criteria, but I   have the impression that it is guilty until

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sep 12, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Christian Theune wrote: Hi, Jim Fulton wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Christian Theune wrote: - I think we want a release manager. You're a genius! I'll just snap my fingers. What happened after you snapped? :) You became the release manager.

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Christian Theune
Jim Fulton wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Christian Theune wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Christian Theune wrote: - I think we want a release manager. You're a genius! I'll just snap my fingers. What happened after you snapped? :) You became the release

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Dieter Maurer
Martijn Faassen wrote at 2006-9-12 11:25 +0200: ... On the one hand core developers seem to be happy to use the trunk for development projects, and on the other hand we demand a lot of work doing bugfixes in a release, up to the point where we delay the release itself. core developers

[Zope3-dev] Re: 3.3.1 release planning

2006-09-12 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Martijn Faassen wrote: Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: Hi there, I understand that the 3.3.0 release is coming out next week. As the 3.3.1 release manager volunteer, I ask everybody to do the following: If you find a bug in Zope 3, please try fixing it in Zope 3.3

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Release schedule for Zope 2.11/3.4?

2006-09-12 Thread Dieter Maurer
Martijn Faassen wrote at 2006-9-12 14:44 +0200: ... The current CHANGES.txt from the trunk just lists one new feature (added by myself). That's does not deserve a major release. It's the nature of time-based releases, though. If nobody does anything in 6 months, does that mean we won't have a

[Zope3-dev] Zope 3.3.0 rc1 released!

2006-09-12 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
The Zope 3 development team is proud to announce Zope 3.3.0 rc1. Zope 3 is the next major Zope release and has been written from scratch based on the latest software design patterns and the experiences of Zope 2. Cleanup of the Zope 3 packages has continued to ensure a flexible and scalable

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:24 PM, Christian Theune wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Christian Theune wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Christian Theune wrote: - I think we want a release manager. You're a genius! I'll just snap my fingers. What

Re: [Zope3-dev] Roadmap for Zope 3.4

2006-09-12 Thread Christian Theune
Hi there, Jim Fulton wrote: I know. So Martijn and I both stepped forward a small bit on this. So we need some conflict resolution. :) Let Martijn do 3.3.1. Why don't you do 3.4. Actually dividing that job up to different people, maybe on a kind of rotation, sounds like a good plan. What do

[Zope3-dev] Re: Working on the 3.3.0rc1 release

2006-09-12 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 TAHARA Yusei wrote: Hi. At Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:43:27 +0200, Christian Theune wrote: Then this is a small reminder to Yusei, that the 3.3 branch has been tagged for RC candidate and only *very critical* changes are allowed to go there until we

[Zope3-dev] Re: Release schedule for Zope 2.11/3.4?

2006-09-12 Thread Hanno Schlichting
Hi. Martijn Faassen wrote: Andreas Jung wrote: --On 12. September 2006 13:06:05 +0200 Martijn Faassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another point with this whole half-yr release cycle: we're going to confuse more and more professional users about which Zope version to use for what. I've

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Release schedule for Zope 2.11/3.4?

2006-09-12 Thread Benji York
Martijn Faassen wrote: Andreas Jung wrote: Another point with this whole half-yr release cycle: we're going to confuse more and more professional users about which Zope version to use for what. I've heard from my major customer but also from other ppl. IN December we would have *three*

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Release schedule for Zope 2.11/3.4?

2006-09-12 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 12. September 2006 16:55:31 +0200 Martijn Faassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I think we should just release the trunk every six months (with a list of known bugs) and that be it. (I'm speaking of Zope 3 here, I don't know enough about the dynamics of the Zope 2 ecosystem to

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Release schedule for Zope 2.11/3.4?

2006-09-12 Thread Benji York
Andreas Jung wrote: I am thinking since one hour about how to reply to Benji's proposal. It's not much acceptable. Major release have to be planned to a certain degree and must be tested (as good as we can) - means we must have alpha and beta releases. I wasn't proposing we do away with