On 3 October 2015 at 05:41, Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> wrote:
On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:20, R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> wrote:
That said, I do feel the amount of pre-release testing, even in the beta part of the cycle, has increased steadily in the past two or three releases, which is great to see.
Yes, it has. Also, some of the third-party distributors - Ubuntu and MacPorts come to mind - have been more aggressive about pushing betas and even alphas out for wider exposure. Anything we can do on the Windows side to help get more exposure earlier would be great, too.
We also looked at trying to land 3.5 for this month's Fedora 23 release (which would have involved bringing the pre-releases into Fedora Rawhide), but decided it more sense to prioritise further work on the Python 3 migration instead. That competing task won't be there for the 3.6 release, so with any luck the draft release schedule should align nicely with bringing at least the release candidates, and potentially one or more of the later beta releases, into Fedora Rawhide for F26.
On the Windows front, might it be worth considering setting up semi-automated MSI installer testing on Appveyor? http://www.appveyor.com/docs/build-configuration#installing-additional-softw... indicates it should be able to do installations from the python.org binaries, and it could be triggered from a repo containing download URLs for the installers to be tested (for example).
Cheers, Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia