[Python-Dev] Shorter release schedule?

[MRAB]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Just food for thought here, but seeing how 3.1 is going to be a real featureful
> schedule despite being released shortly after 3.0, wouldn't it make sense to
> tighten future release planning a little? I was thinking something like doing a
> major release every 12 months (rather than 18 to 24 months as has been
> heuristically the case lately). This could also imply switching to some kind of
> loosely time-based release system.
> 
> If I'm wildly off-base, you can either flame me, ignore me, or assign me
> annoying release blockers involving memoryviews and weird character encodings :-)
> 
Next you'll be saying that they should be named after years. Python
2010, anyone? :-)

I think that releases should depend on whether there are enough changes
for one.