[Distutils] ANNOUNCE: Distutils 0.1.2 released

[Michel Sanner]

Greg,

Your doing an excellent job ! don't worry about G Stein's comment ... he is not
ALWAYS right ! and IMHO, I do not think that this word of caution in you mail
was worth posting a message !

-Michel

On Dec 16, 10:03am, Greg Ward wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Distutils] ANNOUNCE: Distutils 0.1.2 released
> On 15 December 1999, Greg Stein said:
> > Who cares whether it is chancy or not?
> >
> > This is a symptom that I've seen from many people. "Oh! I can't release
> > yet... it might break." Or another favorite "Here is a pre-release, please
> > test it and then I'll make a real release."
>
> In my own defense, I think I like the code snapshot followed by a real
> release a few days later.  That shows the world that things are
> happening, and gives me time to take care of the bureaucracy of making a
> release: make sure everything's checked in and tagged, update the
> changelog, update the readme, update the web pages, and so forth.
>
> Of course my self-imposed bureaucracy *does* slow down making releases
> -- I would have a hard time putting out new versions every other day
> because I insist on having a readable, grammatical, up-to-date README
> file, and I am really keen on having everything under CVS control and
> appropriately tagged.  These are the little things that make trying out
> new software a lot easier on people; I for one am sick to death of
> moderately good software that is hobbled by a lousy, out-of-date README
> or poorly-written documentation.  I prefer to take a few hours more and
> put out quality information as well as quality code.
>
> IOW, yes: release early and release often.  But how early and how often
> are matters of personal style, and not everyone can proceed at a
> Linus-esque breakneck pace of new releases every couple of days.
>
>         Greg
>
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>-- End of excerpt from Greg Ward



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