[Zope-dev] Zope 2.9 goals

[Jim Fulton]

Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 10:28:11AM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
> 
>>We have historically always had the opportunity to introduce features
>>that preserve 100% b/c (like filestream iterators) in point releases.
>>This has worked pretty well for the last few years.
> 
> 
> Strongly agree. By my count there have been 22 features added between 
> 2.7.1 and 2.7.6 (notably including a heavy overhaul of transient objects
> and sessioning, addition of the filestream iterator, and a host of 
> improvements to ZopeFind, text file support, test.py, restructured
> text, etc).
> 
> That's a hell of a lot of useful stuff that would have had to wait the 
> 16 months between 2.7.0 and 2.8.0.

Fortunately, we'll be making feature releases every 6 months,
so this should not be a problem.

Jim

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