On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 20:05:24 +0200
Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 20:25:17 +0530 Nick Coghlan
wrote: On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Larry Hastings
wrote: I don't agree. It's my understanding that the alphas are largely ignored, and having them earlier would hardly make them more relevant.
I would appreciate it you stopped promoting this myth. Each step in the release process widens the pool of people providing feedback.
Well, if you look at the download statistics at http://www.python.org/webstats/ or even at the bug influx when publishing an alpha, it seems clear to me that alphas have almost no impact.
Erm, I hadn't seen Brian's reply before sending this. Apparently there *are* people who download the alphas, which for some reason I had overlooked in the stats pages. My mistake, sorry. Regards Antoine. -- Software development and contracting: http://pro.pitrou.net