long-term release schedule?

[Ray Smith]

Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net> wrote in message news:<mailman.1055465243.2520.python-list at python.org>...
> [Ray Smith]
> > ...
> > I guess the "angle" of my question was it Guido and his team didn't
> > get commercial backing to continue development of Python how would it
> > effect the growth and commercial support of Python??
> 
> Well, how *has* it affected it?  Nobody has had a full-time job working on
> Python since BeOpen.com folded.  Zope Corporation has been very generous in
> funding Python work beyond the minimum that Zope Corp needs for its own
> plans, but all of us at PythonLabs spend nearly all our paid time directly
> on Zope-related work now (most of which uses Python, but decreasingly little
> of which develops Python anymore).  For example, follow the bug and patch
> trackers on SourceForge, and you'll see that the sum of Python work done by
> Guido and his crew is dwarfed by the work done by others, and that's been so
> for a long time now.

Wow, obviously you guys inparticular plus the community in general are doing
alot more work than I realised. 
I guess I can set myself a long term challenge ... to actually fix / document /
or contribute in some way to Python!!! 

Regards,

Ray Smith