On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
So, we need to come up with a new release schedule for Python 3.0. My suggestion:
15-Oct-2008 3.0 beta 4 05-Nov-2008 3.0 rc 2 19-Nov-2008 3.0 rc 3 03-Dec-2008 3.0 final
Given what still needs to be done, is this a reasonable schedule? Do we need two more betas?
I know I'm contradicting what I said earlier, but perhaps we should just forget going back to beta and stick to ever-more-perfect release candidates? In other worlds release candidates often contain tons of imperfections (I believe I've seen this both for Java and Windows) and the label "release candidate" more clearly encourages people to download and play with it, which is what we need at this point! Then the schedule would be something like 15-Oct-2008 3.0 rc 2 05-Nov-2008 3.0 rc 3 19-Nov-2008 3.0 rc 4 03-Dec-2008 3.0 final -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)