2010-04-06¶
This is the summary of the weekly Zope developer meeting which happened on Tuesday, 2010-04-06 on #zope@irc.freenode.org from 3pm to 3:30pm (UTC).
The agenda for this meeting is available in the mailing list archives: https://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2010-April/039981.html
The IRC logs are located here: http://zope3.pov.lt/irclogs-zope/%23zope.2010-04-06.log.html#t2010-04-06T18:00:01
Tres Seaver was filling in for Christian Theune as conventer due to illness.
Zope2 release manager¶
The community welcomes Hanno Schlichting as the new release manager for Zope2. In addition to closing / responding to dozens of bugs in the past week, Hanno has also proposed a roadmap for Zope 2.13 and has made the release tag for Zope 2.12.4.
Porting packages to Zope3¶
Lennart Regebro reported that he has branches waiting for the first three
“most depended-on” ZTK packages (zope.event
, zope.interface
, and
zope.testing
). After considering naming the new releases 4.0
,
the consensus was to just name them the next “normal” major release, as
long as there are no backward-incompatible API changes.
Some discussion of the general problem of doctests breaking due to exception
formatting led to a suggestion from Jim Fulton that we implement a testing
API similar the unittest.TestCase.assertRaises
, but with the additional
feature that it returns the exception value, to permit further assertions
about the state of that object.
Buildbots¶
No one had new updates on the topic. Sidnei da Silva reported that he
is close to reconstructing the script used to build win64
images for
Amazon EC.
Tres Seaver reported that his request to Microsoft for dontaed VisualStudio
licnese to support builds / tests of zope.*
packages on Windows
for Python 2.4 and 2.5 is still stalled.
Baiju M noted that Rackspace can also support Windows in its cloud: http://www.rackspacecloud.com/ .
Tracker status¶
Charlie Clark reported that he had gotten his script for checking
Launchpad for “languishing” bugs working. He posted that package to
zope-dev@zope.org
during the meeting.
Bug Days¶
After some discussion, Adam Groszer and Baiju M agreed to widen their planned
bluebream
sprint to include more general ZTK issues. The sprint,
originally set for Saturday, 2010-04-10, was rescheduled to Saturday,
2010-04-24. Charlie Clark asked for announcments, plus volunteers willing
to help mentor new exterminators during the bug day. Adam and Baiju will
organize a web page for coordinating the bug day activity, and send out
the announcements.
Carried Over¶
Resurrecting the “sprint schedule” page, http://wiki.zope.org/zope3/SprintSchedule
A more general calendar (e.g., for Zope / Python related conferences, symposia, sprints, etc.)