Zikula questions at this week's Marketing meeting

[Mel Chua]

Toshio had some questions about some of the module packages (context 
pasted below).

<abadger1999> mchua: So for the secondary package (pagemaster) -- I'm 
not happy approving it with the bundled filterutils
<abadger1999> mchua: I've been trying to catch itbegins on irc to ask 
him about when zikula2 will be out/whether we can upgrade to that in 
FI/EPEL or if it's incompatible, etc.
<abadger1999> mchua: There are cases where other packages had contained 
backports -- but to things from the Core language (python stdlib stuff 
is what I'm thinking) not to addons.
<abadger1999> mchua: Anyhow -- If someone else wanted to review and 
approve that module, we'd want to make sure that it used the zikula-2 
library i available and the backport if not... but I'm not sure how to 
do that in php.

Simon, in case you see this in the next 50 minutes - were you planning 
on coming to the Fedora Marketing meeting today? I'm going through the 
agenda now and it looks like FI should be most of it. (If not, no 
worries, I'll keep logistics up to date on zikula and marketing up to 
date on FI, and keep chasing these answers down.)

--Mel

[Simon Birtwistle]

Sorry for my disappearing this week, been a bit crazy (I didn't get away
from work until 1am last night, and 11pm today).

So Zikula 2 is our long term, major change developmental branch.  We're
moving to a fully object oriented codebase, reducing code size while keeping
functionality and improving performance.  Along the way we should pick up a
few features.  But, by its nature, development of Zikula 2 is a pretty slow
process, so we're talking 1 year plus before I predict it hitting stable.

The good news is we maintain backwards compatibility in our APIs and so on,
so all the modules we set up now should work fine.

In the case of pagemaster, they are including the library precisely because
Zikula 2 is so far off.  When it gets nearer (probably release candidate
stage), there will be a new version of pagemaster without the FilterUtil
library bundled.

Sorry for missing the meeting, but thanks for sending me this email direct
so I saw it :)


Simon


>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Mel Chua [mailto:[e-mail]]
>  Sent: 01 September 2009 20:14
>  To: Simon Birtwistle
>  Cc: Toshio Kuratomi; Fedora Marketing;
>  logistics(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  Subject: Zikula questions at this week's Marketing meeting
>  
>  Toshio had some questions about some of the module packages (context
>  pasted below).
>  
>  <abadger1999> mchua: So for the secondary package (pagemaster) -- I'm
>  not happy approving it with the bundled filterutils
>  <abadger1999> mchua: I've been trying to catch itbegins on irc to ask
>  him about when zikula2 will be out/whether we can upgrade to that in
>  FI/EPEL or if it's incompatible, etc.
>  <abadger1999> mchua: There are cases where other packages had contained
>  backports -- but to things from the Core language (python stdlib stuff
>  is what I'm thinking) not to addons.
>  <abadger1999> mchua: Anyhow -- If someone else wanted to review and
>  approve that module, we'd want to make sure that it used the zikula-2
>  library i available and the backport if not... but I'm not sure how to
>  do that in php.
>  
>  Simon, in case you see this in the next 50 minutes - were you planning
>  on coming to the Fedora Marketing meeting today? I'm going through the
>  agenda now and it looks like FI should be most of it. (If not, no
>  worries, I'll keep logistics up to date on zikula and marketing up to
>  date on FI, and keep chasing these answers down.)
>  
>  --Mel
>  
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