Re: Message received :)

On Sunday, Mar 23, 2003, at 13:36 Europe/Paris, Jim Fulton wrote:

> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> Hi,
>> There has been a lot of really great discussion on this list. You've
>> sent a couple of *very* strong messages that have been heard:
>> - It's critical to the many Zope businesses around the world,
>>   including ZC, that the transition from Zope 2 to Zope 3 be as clear
>>   and understandable as possible.
>> - The technical transition is *very very* important to people. People
>>   very much want to be able to transition their Zope 2 applications,
>>   including content and software, to Zope 3. They are willing to run
>>   conversion tools, but they want the process to be as simple as
>>   possible.
>> Given the concerns raised, I'd like to encourage this group to
>> continue helping with the communication about and planning of the
>> transition.  Among other things, I'd like to get your input on:
>> - The renaming of the thing currently known as Zope 3x, and
>
> I haven't gotten any consensus input on this. Absent this,
> I'm going to call this Zope X3.

X3 or 3X?  Either way, I agree with your point.

>> - The release schedule for the thing currently known as Zope 3x.
>>   My sense is that there is concern that we are making alpha
>>   releases while the system is still in a state of flux.  While
>>   this is consistent with my understanding of the meaning of "alpha"
>>   releases, I understand why some folks feel this sends the wrong
>>   message. I'm open to scaling these early releases back or calling
>>   them something else.
>
> I've decided to call these milesone releases as suggested by J. 
> Cameron Cooper.

That's a very good proposal.

>> I'd appreciate it if someone or a small group (2 or 3) of people would
>> volunteer to guide and summarize the discussion.
>
> I'm planning on making the next release atound April 3.  I'd like to 
> announce
> this soon.  Absent any additional input, I'm going to call this release
> Zope X3 milestone 2.

Very good.

In general, I don't foresee much action on this mailing list for the 
next six months.  We haven't done a good job of converting our broad 
opinion into useful, specific information for Jim.  Thus, Jim should 
feel ok about pursuing the course he's on and we'll of course support 
him.

BTW Jim, good job on the milestone release and the schema docs.

--Paul