Re: FYI: Lessons from Kai Wu at ArsDigita

seb bacon wrote:
> Paul Everitt wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Tuesday, Feb 11, 2003, at 10:52 Europe/Paris, seb bacon wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> All of Kai Wu's observations suggest this route to me:
>>>
>>>  - make some crystal clear, highly visible statements that Zope3
>>>    is an R&D effort, without a release date, from the front page
>>>    of zope.org

The "without a release date" part would be an untruth.

...

> I'm only thinking of Zope 3x.  Zope3.0 would come some time after.
> 
> Ughh, having just made my point about Zope names (see other mail), I 
> have just realised what a truly terrible, confusing naming convention we 
> have developed!
> 
> Zope 2.x == Any Zope released before Zope3.0
> Zope 3.x == A complete, usable Zope without backwards compatibility
> Zope 3.0 == The successor to Zope 2.x
> 
> (or something like that)
> 
> That is a marketing person's nightmare!
> 
> Come to think of it, why do we need a public release of Zope 3.x at all?

You've got the naming convention wrong. It should be:

    Zope 2.x == Any Zope releases

      These releases will likely extend beyond Zope 3.0

    Zope 3x.0 == A complete, usable Zope without backwards compatibility
    Zope 3x.x == Any Zope 3x releases before Zope 3.0
    Zope 3.0 == The successor to Zope 2.x

If the "x" is causing so much confusion, we could certainly entertain
another name for it. I'd even be open to a name for 3x that didn't have the digit '3'
in it.  I'm not open to picking a a different name for Zope 3.0.

Jim


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