On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Baiju M <mba...@zeomega.com> wrote: > So, ZTK is ready for 1.0 final release ?
Far from it. After we managed the huge chunk of technical work, we still need to start working on all the not-so-fun process stuff around it. Typical questions are: - How do we find a release manager? - Without a single person being responsible nothing ever gets done. - Who is appointing that person and what duties and power does he have? Is the Steering group enough or is the Zope Foundation the right organization to appoint that person? - How do the roadmaps of the toolkit users look like and when would it make sense for them to have a release? - A ZTK release that isn't actually used by any of Grok, repoze.bfg, Zope2 or whatever comes out of Zope 3 seems rather pointless to me. Anyone can use the SVN version of the ZTK definition at any point, which is the same as rolling your own kgs/index. The large projects have to be able to rely on a certain stability and regularity of releases for years. Or they don't actually use the ZTK KGS but are all rolling their own version of it. - What kind of release cycle should the ZTK have, which is closely related to the above. The ZTK release cycle needs to be somehow aligned to those of its users. Or otherwise most of its value of actually sharing the maintenance burden of the whole thing is gone. - Is there anyone interested in continuing the work on Zope 3 or provide a migration strategy for it? Both Zope2 and Grok have found their own ways to deal with this, so none of the two have an interest in working on such an upgrade story. But it's clear that there are users of Zope 3 out there, that should get some official story, whatever that might be. - How does the process for feature enhancements and proposals for the ZTK look like? Christian started some of the docs but it's all far from finished and we don't actually use any of this process. Currently there's an urge to drop support for Python 2.4, work on Python 3.1 support has started, the CA has seen various proposals for potentially backwards compatible changes, ... there needs to be some process where the toolkit users can raise their concerns, so that they can use ZTK releases and the changes from one release to the next match their progress and deprecation policies. I'm sure there's many more of these questions, where most of them don't have a clear or even objective answer :-) I suggest we wait until the x-mas holidays are over, so everyone has a chance to take part in these discussions. The steering group members have been rather silent and might all be taking vacation ;) Hanno _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
