[Zope-dev] Clarification re: Zope X3.1, 2.8

[Jim Fulton]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Freitag, 18. März 2005 12:31 Uhr -0500 Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>>> A beta release should be feature-complete means it should contain
>>> everything that will be part of the final release. A beta should not
>>> development release where things are subject to change in some way.
>>> We can do an alpha 2 of course with everything you want but as long
>>> as there is longer list of outstanding issues I won't consider the
>>> current SVN trunk as beta quality.
>>
>>
>> I don't think we have new features on the to do list.
>> These are all bug fixes or optimizations.
>>
> 
> My point is: we are adding a lot of new code to the Zope 2 core - it 
> does not matter if
> there is a tight or a loose coupling between Z2 and Z3 - and calling it 
> beta. Any code
> going into a beta should have been tested within at least one alpha 
> release. In my opinion
> alpha releases have the task to figure out major integration problems. 
> Such problems
> should be solved before the beta cycle. My fear is that we are running 
> into the same
> release problems as with the Plone 2.0 release (lots of development and 
> changes during the
> beta phase).
> 
> My suggestion: let's make an Zope 2.8 alpha 2 in the first week of April 
> and let us nail down
> a release date for beta 1 (in early May). So there is enough time for 
> interested people to
> test the Z3 integration and for others to fix outstanding issues in the 
> Zope 2 core. This gives
> everyone (I have the Plone, CPS, Silva communities in mind) the 
> possibility to check out if
> there is something missing in Zope 2.8 *before* we are going into a 
> *short* beta release cycle with hopefully
> a final version in Q2. Any comments?

I think this makes a lot of sense.
Of course, it's up to you and Brian.

:)

Jim

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