[python-committers] ubuntu release plan

[Steve Holden]

My preferred planning strategy is to decide on the goals and then try to 
work out how to achieve them. The PSF will take direction from its 
members and from active developers. But Christian is right about the 
absence of a business plan.

Perhaps when the current release phase is over we need to have a serious 
discussion about other things the PSF can do to support more effective 
development. *Before* we get into the next releases!

If we could get good paid help to massage the tracker that might help, 
but it might not be possible. Given an expressed need from a majority of 
the community I would do what I can to support improvements in the 
development process. It's important, and it would be nice to see closer 
involvement between PSF and developers.

The main thing that's missing right not is the necessary consensus to 
start investing time and money.

regards
  Steve

Anthony Baxter wrote:
> What would this professionalisation get us that we don't have now? As
> far as I can see, the biggest hole at the moment (as always) is with
> people to trawl the tracker and triage bug reports and patches.
> 
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
>> Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>> Ubuntu's sophisticated release plan is certainly justified by its
>>> business model, and the desire to both appeal to the open source people
>>> and the corporate people without creating two different distributions.
>>>
>>> I don't think Python has the same business requirements (neither does it
>>> have marketing and commercial teams), and having differentiated releases
>>> sounds like unwarranted complication.
>> IMHO the PSF and Python core development crew doesn't have a business plan
>> at all. By business plan I'm referring to making money with Python directly.
>> As far as I know most core developers are working on Python beause it's fun.
>> Some developers like Guido are paid by their employers to work on Python as
>> part of their job.
>>
>> Just a crazy idea ... Maybe it's time to make the next step toward
>> professionalizing Python. Python is more and more becoming important for
>> companies. They have to rely upon a stable and solid Python interpreter.
>>  Perhaps some companies are willing to pay the PSF. In return the PSF could
>> hire some developer to work on Python full time. A couple of months ago one
>> well known core developer expressed his interest in a paid job. A crew of
>> three to four full time developers could make a huge difference.
>>
>>> Just my two non-Canonical cents of course!
>> Nice pun :)
>>
>> Christian
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