-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Aspeli wrote:
> Lennart Regebro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>On 1/19/06, Martin Aspeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:22:02 -0000, Philipp von Weitershausen >>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>I think one year is a pretty big span. Today, for example, you would not >>>>start a project on Zope 2.8. You would do it with Zope 2.9 which is >>>>going to get bugfixes until the end of 2006. >>> >>>Not if you spend 18 months developing your application :-/ >> >>Well, in that case you should be able to at some time during that >>process, switch to a new Zope version... I do understand that Zope >>2.9.0 may not be something you want to depend on, but most likely >>there will be a 2.9.1 out by May, so maybe you can consider switching >>then? > > > *I* wouldn't mind. Heck, I'd probably take 2.9.0 beta. > > But the number one concern for a lot (if not most) people who consider using > open source when there are commercial alternatives is support and > maintainability. If the competition says, yeah, sure, this Zope thing's great, > but if you start developing against version 2.8 now, by the time you're done, > your version will be discontinued, oh, and by the way, you can buy support > from > us for 10 years at least... it's not the easiest of things to argue with. People who have those kind of worries should expect to *pay* for longer-term support than the project itself provides. Anything else is suicide for the project. >>>I do understand that it's hard to maintain three Zope 2 releases at the >>>same time (jebus). I'm just worried that this policy, especially if >>>explicit, would make Zope FUD a bit easier. >> >>Zope is in a period of rapid change now, and that is indeed scary. ;) >>It's hard to avoid that, I think, without putting a huge break on the >>changing. > > > Absolutely - it's a double edged sword, though I certainly don't want to see > Zope's maturation process slow down. I'm just trying to raise some awareness > that for a lot of decision makers, the latest and greatest features matter > less > than the security that their application won't break in the future. Zope Corp. is willing (or has been, anyway; I can't speak for them any longer) \to sell support for released versions of Zope. Under such a contract, the supporting company would arrange to get critical (stability / security-related) bugfixes backported, if the version-under-support was no longer the actively developed version. Anyone expecting to get *that* kind of support for free is smoking crack, given the size of the Zope community and its general willingness to upgrade as needed. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 202-558-7113 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDz/gH+gerLs4ltQ4RAqwoAKC1KRn2cgll4SSKIBfJkhOLruGn6QCfQ8SV vETqkRH+4PJMSxRaR6zUKVo= =PAjY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Zope-CMF maillist - [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-cmf See http://collector.zope.org/CMF for bug reports and feature requests
