Andreas Jung wrote: > I think there is need for setting a release date right now - I know that > this a total contradiction to our former approach with time-based > releases. The current 2.11 codebase is pretty much in sync with the > latest Zope web-components. Since the Zope 2 development is in parts > driven by the Plone community and their needs, it does make sense > keeping the development in some way in sync with the Plone 4 release.
When it comes to a roadmap for Zope 2.12, I should probably comment on the Plone-side of this. I'm the current interim release manager for Plone 4.0 and there is a good chance I will end up being the final release manager for the Plone 4.x series. A final decision on this is pending due to our community processes. Plone 4.0 does not have a concrete roadmap yet. The general direction is in favor of making a true real step forward with Plone for the next major version. What that will mean in terms of features, depends on what is going to be written and contributed in the end. But we will allow major backwards incompatible changes in the release. We will not attempt a rewrite of Plone. Time-wise we are not very likely to see a Plone 4.0 final release anytime in the next 12 months. We will see development preview releases and these will most definitely all require Zope 2.12 and Python 2.6. So from a Plone perspective there is no demand for any soon feature freeze or release of Zope 2 itself. Alpha releases might come in handy during spring next year, but even beta versions are not going to be required or particular useful to us. >From what I know of other consumers of Zope 2, it seems Haufe doesn't have a need for any of the Zope 2.12 features at this point, but is using Zope 2.11 / Zope 3.4 as a development base. I don't know the current status of Silva or if there are other major players left using Zope 2, which would benefit from a soon Zope 2.12 release. Please speak up, if you want to influence the roadmap for Zope 2 ;) Hanno _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org 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 )
