[SciPy-dev] Timetable for 0.5.3 release?

[David Cournapeau]

David M. Cooke wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 09:41:52PM -0700, Nathan Bell wrote:
>> Is there a timetable for the next SciPy release?  The last release was
>> quite a while ago, so I think we're due :)
>>
>> I realize that releases are somewhat unimportant for much of the SciPy
>> audience, since they'll go straight for the SVN version anyway.
>> However, it's nice to tell casual users that they can apt-get XYZ and
>> try your software.  Personally, my code depends critically on the
>> improvements to scipy.sparse made shortly after the last release, so
>> I'm anxious to push this along.
>>
>> FWIW there are currently 15 items on the roadmap for 0.5.3:
>> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/scipy/roadmap
>
> Perhaps we should move to a timetable-based release schedule for scipy?
> Every three months, release the current svn version. Also making a
> release after a numpy release is a good idea, so that the current
> versions work with each other.
As the scipy community seems to be growing, and as Travis wanted to have 
a release manager for scipy, what about adopting a scheme similar to 
bzr, which seems to work fine for them: having a different release 
manager for each release ? Not that this is against having a timetable,

cheers,

David