[Python-3000] [Python-3000-checkins] r66218 - python/branches/py3k/RELNOTES

[Guido van Rossum]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>
> On Sep 4, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>> I'm a little confused -- why did you remove the release notes for
>> previous betas but leave those for the alphas in place? ISTM that the
>> file was an accumulation of release notes throughout the various
>> releases -- just like Misc/NEWS, but with a different focus. This is
>> how release notes in other products I've seen typically work, too.
>
> Mostly because I wasn't sure which of those release notes are still
> relevant.  I asked (albeit in a different thread) for some assistance in
> determining what the current state of those are.
>
> I'm not so sure it's helpful to separately indicate release notes for alphas
> and betas, and it's definitely not helpful to include items that are no
> longer relevant.  My thought was to list only those that apply to the final
> release, and then track them with public stable releases such as 3.0.1,
> 3.0.2, etc.

Well, all the alpha notes should have been fixed by now too -- they
all describe temporary deviations from our high standard for releases.

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