[Python-Dev] Python 2.3 patch cut-off date

[Guido van Rossum]

> > The schedule is slipping; we're likely to switch to a more
> > goal-oriented (as opposed to deadline-oriented) approach.
> 
> OK, but that makes planning by patch submitters more challenging.

That's life.  We're all doing this part-time: even PythonLabs has to
do customer work to keep Zope Corp pushing forward.  I realize that
it's helpful for some developers to have a hard deadline, and as we
get closer to folfilling our goals we should set ourselves some, but
I'd rather slip a schedule than release shoddy work.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)