On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 14:55 -0500, Chris McDonough wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 17:32 +0100, Andreas Jung wrote:
... > Also, it sounds as if there's an argument being made that *everyone* > should pitch in to get 2.9 beta out the door *instead* of committing > Zope 2 feature work and the delayed branching is the manifestation of > "legislation" that aims to make this happen. Yup. You figured it out. > I'm not sure it's healthy > to legislate this. I'm not sure either, but we have to try something. > There are people who have no burning desire to see a > 2.9 go out the door within the next few weeks, but OTOH they are very > willing to commit some valuable feature work right now for an eventual > 2.10 release and due to the freeze, they haven't done so (and may never > do so if not now, given the volunteer-ness of their efforts). OK, then there will be less for the people who are willing to fix bugs to work on later. > How can > we accomodate those people in the future? They can always work on a development branch. > IMO, we should try not to > discourage contribution and so we should branch regardless of the state > of the trunk within, say, two weeks of freeze. Does that sound > reasonable for future releases? Not to me. Jim _______________________________________________ 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 )
