Stability and change

[Guido van Rossum]

Just van Rossum wrote:
> 
> In article <uDDr8.66496$S52.2342405 at news2.tin.it>,
>  Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
> 
> > Linus Thorvalds seems to have done pretty well with picking TWO middle
> > grounds -- two parallel tracks for Linux, "stable" and "experimental".
> 
> It seems 2.1.x and 2.2.x currently serve as these two tracks,
> respectively. I think it's a very good idea to think about how to
> formalize this for future releases.

Agreed.  I've moved this to python-dev; see you all there.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)