[Zope3-dev] Re: Roadmap for Zope 3.4

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>>>> That doesn't mean we should postpone a final release over and over 
>>>> again, just because we don't have the resources. In fact, because we 
>>>> don't have the resources, we should release a final anyway and catch 
>>>> up with bugs in, well, bugfix releases :).
>>>
>>> Yes, the whole idea is that we never will have enough resources, so 
>>> we just make do with what we have. The other idea is that it's easier 
>>> to garner resources when you actually have a release in sight. I 
>>> *think* the latter has been working at least to some extent for Zope, 
>>> but we risk losing our credibility if it doesn't actually result in a 
>>> release. You get the "Oh well, I'll participate in the bug day next 
>>> week." effect.
>>
>> My sentiments exactly.
>>
>> If we decide to stick with the November release, 3.4/2.11 will be very 
>> very unambitious. I don't think 2.11 is any different from 2.10, 
>> except that some BBB code is to be removed. That makes me wonder: 
>> perhaps we should set the next release date for 6 months from now 
>> (March), like Andreas suggested on zope-dev at zope.org.
> 
> I would be okay with this, with the condition that we shouldn't go into 
> this kind of slippage again, otherwise we'll keep cycling through the 
> year. I really think we should seriously consider trading off release 
> perfectionism against releasing on time.

+1