Re: [Framework-Team] The new Plone 4.0, was Re: Plone 3.5

Just catching up here on the west coast of the US...

+1 on the modified proposal of aiming for a "less risky" release  
called Plone 4.0, with the caveats that:
- The release needs to offer improvements of significant value to  
justify the effort in upgrading (Hanno's spreadsheet of proposed  
changes and where they might land looks good to me overall)
- We need to nail the upgrade story and documentation of changes.

+1 for Eric Steele as release manager for 4.0 (with Hanno continuing  
to oversee Plone trunk)

David

On May 5, 2009, at 7:57 AM, Hanno Schlichting wrote:

> Hi.
>
> To summarize the feedback from the European time zone, I think that  
> the
> proposal in general meets the favor of everyone.
>
> The controversial issue is the exact version number to use for the
> release. There seems to be broad support for freeing the current Plone
> trunk from a version designator and release a 4.0 release with the
> envisioned scope of this proposal instead.
>
> If I do not get a strong signal or message otherwise, consider this
> proposal changed in this regard.
>
> Hanno
>
> Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> While everyone is waiting for Plone 4 and its rather long timeline,  
>> some
>> people have been thinking about how to bridge the gap between the
>> current stable 3.x releases and the future.
>>
>> The general idea that seems to have met some consensus is to go for a
>> Plone 3.5 release up next. We'd skip any 3.4 release and go for a 3.5
>> that is similar in spirit to the Plone 2.5 release. It tries to both
>> refresh some of our technical underpinnings in addition to some more
>> intrusive feature changes we didn't allow ourselves in the 3.x  
>> series so
>> far.
>>
>> In order to frame the scope of such a release I made a listing of  
>> some
>> of the potential features for such a release at
>> http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rFHYANxtkRfGYchi1QuS5dA. The  
>> list
>> is both non-exclusive and non-binding in the recommendations.
>>
>> The envisioned timeline for a Plone 3.5 release would be to aim for a
>> final release either by the time of the conference or by the end of  
>> this
>> year, giving us six months or a bit more for it. By aiming for an
>> after-summer beta deadline we will have a chance of leveraging some
>> Google Summer of Code contributions for such a release.
>>
>> When it comes to the official personal involved in such a new major
>> release, I'd like to suggest a slight deviation on our process. As  
>> many
>> to all of the features changes in question for the 3.5 release have  
>> so
>> far been in the scope of the 4.0 release, I'd suggest to appoint the
>> entire 4.0 framework team to be the official team for 3.5 as well.  
>> This
>> forces them to get involved with the process in a more defined and  
>> clear
>> way now.
>>
>> On the side of the release manager, Wichert has signaled that his
>> workload as a freelancer will not allow him to take over the  
>> shepherding
>> of a new major release. We do however have with Eric Steele of PSU  
>> fame
>> a well-known interested candidate for the position.
>>
>> This is only a proposal that needs community feedback and  
>> encouragement
>> at this point to make it into an official roadmap. The next steps  
>> are to
>> have an open discussion about this for the next one to two weeks.  
>> If it
>> meets general favor, we will appoint the new/old framework team and  
>> let
>> them recommend a release manager to the Foundation board for official
>> nomination.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Hanno
>>
>
>
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