[Pkg-zope-developers] Re: about the pkg-zope repositories

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Matthias Klose wrote:

> Andreas, it depends on the attitude of the testers ;-) The Gnome team
> did show, that it could get the whole Gnome 2.8 preparation done in
> experimental.
I guess this is related to the number of Gnome user compared to the number
of Zope users.  The difference is big enough to make a different approach.

>> There should be an upgrade path from Plone 2.0.5 to Plone 2.1, right?
>> If you really need a higher version on a critical machine you are
>> on your own and should try a backport.
> in general, we cannot offer more than upstream offers. If upstream
> doesn't offer an upgrade path, what will you do?
Sure, but if I'm not completely missleaded, Plone does upgrades, right?
I just do not accept the reasoning that user have to use unstable because
they need the latest version.

> I strongly disagree about the use of experimental. It's there for such
> kind of things, i.e. to develop a completely new installation system.
> why don't you want to use experimental?  Are these old habits that you
> cannot get rid of? ;-)
So we agree here, right? :)

Kind regards

         Andreas.

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