Andreas Jung said: >> 1) When is the recent release of 2.7.4b2 expected to be followed up with >> a >> 'final' (or indeed another beta) release? > > 2.7.4 final is scheduled for early January.
Ok, thanks. >> 2) I have seen mutterings about a 2.7.5 release, but I'm not sure why >> this >> should be necessary as I thought all 'dot releases' were only supposed >> to >> provide bug-fixes. Seeing as we're still on beta for 2.7.4, shouldn't >> any >> outstanding fixes go into that? > > Have you seen anything other than bugfixes in dot releases? Except some > minor > improvements all releases were bugfix releases only. No major new > features > were introduced. And new 2.7.X release will be made as long as > outstanding > bugs are fixed but not *every* outstanding will be fixed. That's fair enough. Thanks for the clarification. >> 3) Are there plans for another 2.8 (alpha or beta) release in the near >> future? Is there a timeline for this? Are ZC or anyone else hanging >> out >> for this? Personally, I'm pretty keen to be able to persist new style >> classes (for use with the email.Message.Message class). The wiki at >> <http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/Zope2.8/FrontPage> seems a >> little out of date. >> > > There are some outstanding issues that must be fixed before the next alpha > 2 > (ZClasses, garbage collection). I don't know when Jim can work on this > issue > (there are only some people with the detail knowledge to fix these > issues). Since > I can not enforce people to work on particular issues, a2 will released > when the > outstanding issues are solved. I understand. FWIW, the two things I'd like are a stable 2.7 release in the short term to setup a new site on, and a stable 2.8 release to develop a new product on. Sounds like Santa (aka Andreas) will be bringing the former ;-). I think in the back of my mind, I was hoping that more people waiting on 2.8 to get their features into zope might speed things up on the latter - hence my wondering about the motivations for a 2.7.5 (which you have now cleared up). That said, I'm in no position to do anything other than inquire (in a most friendly and appreciative manner) about 2.8 as I'm certainly not on of the people with the 'detailed knowledge' to fix zclasses and garbage collection. cheers, tim _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
