[Zope3-dev] Re: Realistic Zope 3 roadmap ?

[Garrett Smith]

I've been away so I missed out on this thread -- but I do want to 
followup on a point:

Jake (aka BZ) wrote:
  > If you have a hard deadline of one year, I would NOT use Zope X3 or 
Zope 3
> for it. First of all, deadlines and priorities slip and those are only
> those of Zope Corp. All other products will probably take another year
> after the release of Zope 3 to get ported.

We're building a fairly large business application using Zope 3. I've 
been the lead developer (well, pretty much the only developer :-) on 
this for the last several months.

IMO, Zope X3 is very usable as a development platform. As Stephan 
mentioned in another reply, even the radical geddons* have had very 
little impact on existing source. In all cases where code needed to 
change, the mods were a substantial improvement and well worth the small 
effort.

The only caveat I have is that you should be prepared to face a learning 
curve without the help of comprehensive documentation. What's there is 
excellent, but at times you'll have to sink some time into figuring 
something out. Keep in mind, however, that there are several developers 
on this list who have a lot of experience with this framework and you 
can always post something to this list.

Finally, and not to blow too much smoke, but Jim and crew are running a 
very enlightened project, at least IMO. They're respectful of existing 
projects/code, which is why the geddons* have gone so smoothly.

So, if you have an inclination to jump in with ZX3, I highly recommend 
it :-)

  -- Garrett

* Ala Armageddon -- i.e. something gets severely refactored.