[Zope3-dev] December release post-mortem

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Fulton
Now that I've had a week or so to recover from making the Zope 3 releases, I'd like to look at how we did on our first timed releases. Of course, the releases didn't happen in December. In fact, the Zope 2 Windows release still hasn't happened. That we were late isn't a great surprise, given

Re: [Zope3-dev] December release post-mortem

2006-01-18 Thread Sidnei da Silva
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:36:35AM -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: | And then there are the Windows releases. Making Zope 2 windows releases | is very painful and there don't seem to be many people willing to help. | We've avoided the pain for Zope 3 by being less ambitious. We let distutils | do most

Re: [Zope3-dev] December release post-mortem

2006-01-18 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 1/18/06, Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These were some of my reactions to this first attempt at time-based releases. What do other folks think? I think early January is an understandable delay, considering that midwinter celebrations came in the way. Great work everyone! -- Lennart

[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] December release post-mortem

2006-01-18 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 18. Januar 2006 07:36:35 -0500 Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the future, if someone introduces a major change, they *must* be committed to be available to deal with issues that arise during the release cycle. Perhaps we need to pick different release dates to avoid holidays.

Re: [Zope3-dev] December release post-mortem

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Fulton
Sidnei da Silva wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:36:35AM -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: | And then there are the Windows releases. Making Zope 2 windows releases | is very painful and there don't seem to be many people willing to help. | We've avoided the pain for Zope 3 by being less ambitious. We

[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] December release post-mortem

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Fulton
Andreas Jung wrote: ... The basic problem with the windows release is that there is currently nobody in charge for the windows release (although Tim is again doing working on the Windows side, ALL HAIL TIM). I'll repeat or emphasis that the windows release process needs to be simple enough

[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] December release post-mortem

2006-01-18 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 18. Januar 2006 10:31:03 -0500 Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Jung wrote: ... The basic problem with the windows release is that there is currently nobody in charge for the windows release (although Tim is again doing working on the Windows side, ALL HAIL TIM). I'll

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] December release post-mortem

2006-01-18 Thread Sidnei da Silva
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:37:12PM +0100, Andreas Jung wrote: | I'll repeat or emphasis that the windows release process needs to | be simple enough that *I* can do it. | | Well, that's a perfect goal :-) But my experience with doing slightly | simple programming tasks on Windows is that Windows

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] December release post-mortem

2006-01-18 Thread Martijn Faassen
Jim Fulton wrote: Andreas Jung wrote: ... I think 2.9.0 is the _real_ 2.9 beta which will be widely used by ppl :-) I could be wrong, but if we stick to a 6-month release cycle for feature releases, I don't think there is going to be much appetite for bug-fix releases, except in extreme

Re: [Zope3-dev] December release post-mortem

2006-01-18 Thread Sidnei da Silva
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:24:20AM -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: | Sidnei da Silva wrote: | On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:45:20AM -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: | | People up to now have come up with systems like this that they thought | were | | automated enough. That's why we don't have a 2.9 release for

Re: [Zope3-dev] December release post-mortem

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Fulton
Sidnei da Silva wrote: ... | As I said before, the fact that we don't have a windows release | is proof that the process isn't automated enough. That's not a proof that the process is not automated enough. The transition from python2.3 to 2.4 *is* non-trivial because python changed from

[Zope3-dev] Email proposals migrated to wiki proposals

2006-01-18 Thread Gary Poster
I moved the proposals I made last week to the wiki. The mapping is listed below. I have implementations for all of them and will probably check them in tomorrow sometime barring further discussion. I did have one qualm with the auth proposal, as I described and implemented it. As before,

Re: [Zope3-dev] Proposal: Enhance tracebacks in persistent logs

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Fulton
Shane Hathaway wrote: Any objections to this proposal? http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/EnhanceTracebacksInPersistentLogs +1 One issue though is that I want to replace ZConfig with a ZConfig format for zcml. (This would include making ZCML extensible to

Re: [Zope3-dev] December release post-mortem

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Fulton
Stephan Richter wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:27, Martijn Faassen wrote: How do you assemble releases 'from releases'? I'm not sure I understand that. You mean make a Zope 2 release using a Zope 3 release? I'll note that SchoolTool greatly benefits from the current release

Re: [Zope3-dev] December release post-mortem

2006-01-18 Thread Fred Drake
On 1/18/06, Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If eggs work out, as I hope they will, I'd like to stop work on zpkg and just use eggs. +42 -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr.fdrake at gmail.com There is no wealth but life. --John Ruskin ___

Re: [Zope3-dev] December release post-mortem

2006-01-18 Thread Stephan Richter
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 19:09, Jim Fulton wrote: You know my position concerning the repository and the release; I'd prefer them to be kept as similar as possible to simplify the release process. I hope we can go in that direction. It also makes things more predictable to developers.

[Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Zope 3 startup message

2006-01-18 Thread Rocky Burt
Marius Gedminas wrote: * I can copy the URL and paste it directly into a browser * I can right-click on the URL, and choose Open in web browser from the popup menu that GNOME terminal gives me. What do you think about changing Zope 3 server startup messages to show URLs instead of

Re: [Zope3-dev] Proposal: Enhance tracebacks in persistent logs

2006-01-18 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:37:41PM -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote: Any objections to this proposal? http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/EnhanceTracebacksInPersistentLogs +1 (I would like the test runner to use extended tracebacks as well.) Marius Gedminas -- This