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

Jesse Noller jnoller at gmail.com
Tue Sep 9 14:49:20 CEST 2008



On Sep 8, 2008, at 1:13 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.
>

Given that 2.6 is going to be more widely adopted and used by both the  
community and OS distributors, I'm +1 on splitting the releases as well.

-Jesse 


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