[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Proposed revised schedule

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Benjamin Peterson
<musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>>> I don't think there's any way we're going to make our October 1st goal.  We
>>> have 8 open release critical bugs, and 18 deferred blockers.  We do not have
>>> a beta3 Windows installer and I don't have high hopes for rectifying all of
>>> these problems in the next day or two.
>>>
>>> I propose that we push the entire schedule back two weeks.  This means that
>>> the planned rc2 on 17-September becomes our rc1.  The planned final release
>>> for 01-October becomes our rc2, and we release the finals on 15-October.
>>>
>>> - -Barry
>>
>> Perhaps it's time to separate the 2.6 and 3.0 release schedules? I
>> don't care if the next version of OSX contains 3.0 or not -- but I do
>> care about it having 2.6.
>
> I'm not really sure what good that would do us unless we wanted to
> bring 3.0 back to the beta phase and continue to work on some larger
> issues with it. I also suspect doing two separate, but close together
> final releases would be more stressful than having them in lock and
> step.

Well, from the number of release blockers it sounds like another 3.0
beta is the right thing. For 2.6 however I believe we're much closer
to the finish line -- there aren't all those bytes/str issues to clean
up, for example! And apparently the benefit of releasing on schedule
is that we will be included in OSX. That's a much bigger deal for 2.6
than for 3.0 (I doubt that Apple would add two versions anyway).

> Just my pocket change, though.
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Benjamin Peterson
> "There's no place like 127.0.0.1."
>



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