[Python-Dev] 2.5 schedule

[Thomas Wouters]

On 5/21/06, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>
>     Thomas> Allow me to pitch in my support for speeding up the releases,
>     Thomas> then. I don't believe alpha releases (of Python) get serious
>     Thomas> testing.
>
> Is there nobody else out there that uses Python built from the current svn
> repository as the main Python interpreter on a day-to-day basis?  Maybe
> that
> doesn't qualify as rigorous testing.  I've been doing that for several
> years.  I can only remember once or twice needing to fall back to
> something
> less bleeding edge for a short while.


Sure, that counts. You only count as one, though (and so do I) -- and
neither of us is actually using an alpha release :-) I was talking about the
testing an alpha release attracts, in the wider population than just
python-dev subscribers. The fact that much testing goes on between releases
as well makes the alphas even less important. Wetting the appetites and
soliciting feedback on the major features is what they're for, in my eyes.

-- 
Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org>

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