On Aug 11, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Christian Theune wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 09:37 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >> On Aug 3, 2008, at 4:03 AM, Christian Theune wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 09:21 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >>>> On Jul 31, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Chris Withers wrote: >>>>> What I'd *really* like is a stable zodb release with Christian's >>>>> patches for zeoraid and Shane's patches for RelStorage that then >>>>> feeds through into a stable release of Zope 2. >>>> >>>> >>>> I'm not familiar with Christians patches. If they are bug fixes, >>>> they >>>> could make it into 3.8. I plan to include Shane's patches in 3.9. >>>> I'm >>>> not sure when there will be a stable release of 3.9. >>> >>> My patches aren't bug fixes and the plan was never to include them >>> to >>> ZODB 3.8. >>> >>> However, I was hoping for inclusion of at least the >>> `storage-iterator-branch` in 3.9 and I asked a few times over the >>> past >>> months already for review but haven't gotten any responses at all so >>> far. This branch has been used in production for a few month >>> already. >> >> I haven' t had time to review this yet. I'll get to it eventually. >> I'm sure I'll get to it before 3.9 is released. > > \o/ > >>> In addition there's the `bushy-directory` branch which introduces a >>> new >>> blob directory structure to avoid scalability issues with >>> filesystems >>> like ext2/3 that only accept limited numbers of entries in a >>> directory. >> >> Hm, this sounds like a bug fix if it prevents failures. > > It is. We ran into a failure on a production system that ran ext(2|3).
It sounds like this (or some form of it) should go into 3.8.x. >>> This branch is being used in production but needs a little which >>> should >>> happen in the next days. (The packing is reported to block.) >> >> Is the packing blockage unique to this branch? > > Blocking currently happens on both trunk and 3.8. So this should get into a 3.8.x release. >>> At last there's a small `ctheune-betterimport` branch which fixes >>> ZEXP >>> import for weakref objects and has been sitting around for almost a >>> year >>> now too. >> >> >> Is this a bug fix for 3.8? Or a feature for 3.9? > > I can't remember when 3.8 came out. Back than it was a feature. OTOH > you > could call it a bugfix because you could create ZEXP files that could > never be imported again. So a candidate for a 3.8 release. Jim -- Jim Fulton Zope Corporation _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev