On 19 August 2017 at 21:30, xoviat <xoviat@gmail.com> wrote:
Also, I disagree with this point. I think it's still possible (and in fact preferable) to have setuptools and pip 'test this out' with appropriate fallbacks before opening this up to the wider community. Most people wouldn't even notice because they wouldn't be using HEAD.
The same people who would notice it are probably just as able to apply a patch/PR or grab a fork. So your PRs are available for people to test if they want to, they don't need to be merged for that to happen. The setuptools and pip master branches are for things which *are* expected to go into the next version, not for experimental changes (for pip, we should be able to release from master whenever we want to, I suspect setuptools has a similar policy). Paul