[Python-Dev] Community buildbots (was Re: User's complaints)

[Giovanni Bajo]

Barry Warsaw wrote:

> OTOH, a more formal gamma phase would allow us to say
> "absolutely no changes are allowed now unless it's to fix backward
> compatibility".  No more sneaking in new sys functions or types
> module constants <wink> during the gamma phase.

This is pretty common in project management. For instance, GCC has a rather
complex 4-stage release process, whose last phase (beginning at the point
the release is branched in SVN) is made of commits only for regressions.
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Giovanni Bajo