[z3-five] Five release management: 1.2, 1.5 und 1.6

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Hi there,

some random notes on Five releases:

Five 1.2
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I declared last week's 1.2.6 release the last one I would make off of
the Five 1.2 branch. I don't expect the Zope 2.8 line to make any more
releases either. I realize that Zope 2.8 is in production and might even
be used (against my personal recommendation) as the default deployment
for e.g. the Plone installers. That's why anyone is welcome to backport
bugfixes to Five 1.2 and make releases. I just won't be doing it, and I
won't be bugging people to do it either.

By the way, I hereby would like to repeat my dismay regarding Plone
2.5's shipping with Five 1.2 by default (if that is still the case).
Plone 2.5 should recommend Zope 2.9 (with its included Five 1.3) and
should require Five 1.2 for Zope 2.8 compatibility.


Five 1.5
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Five 1.5 was released last week. That means it is now officially in the
maintenance circle (of course, it's been feature-frozen since the first
1.5 beta in May). There currently is no Five 1.5 branch. The trunk is
Five 1.5.x. Usually I'm against having the trunk as a release branch but
in Five's case I made an exception: till now we've had four parallel,
stable branches (1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5) and maintaining yet another one
(trunk) would've been an extra burden.

As Five 1.2 is now phasing out and we might start development on Five
1.6 (see below), a Five 1.5 branch is to be expected soon. Anyone is
welcome to create it in order to lift the current feature freeze on the
trunk.


Five 1.6
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As Five 1.5 is in the maintenance cycle, it's time to start thinking
about the next release. Let's hear some proposals for 1.6's features! I
think a big one could be Whit Morris's test layer support.


And always remember our motto: We accept patches :).

Philipp