[IPython-dev] Cutting an 0.10.1 release and an 0.11 'tech preview'?

[Fernando Perez]

Hi all,

now that we've transitioned over to github, we might as well get back
to the real point of it all, moving ipython forward :)

In the bug cleanup I managed to apply a lot of little fixes for 0.10,
and since that series is really in maintenance-only mode, I don't see
a reason to delay the release much longer.  I'd like to simply prepare
an RC for it and leave it out for testing for a few days, if nobody
complains we push it out.  Any objections?

For 0.11, we do have a lot of work still to do, but I worry that only
a handful of people are using it, and without more users we won't see
both the full scope of the real problems.  The state of 0.11 is not
ideal from a 'spit and polish' perspective:

http://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/labels/milestone-0_11

on the other hand I'm starting to think we'll benefit much more from
putting it out as is, labelling it a 'tech preview' for people who use
ipython in other projects, embedding it, etc, to start updating to the
new APIs, checking what we may have missed, etc.  If we delay too long
we'll just drag on and on...

I use this version as my daily working IPython and have since after my
winter blitz, and it's perfectly usable (along with a bunch of little
nice things).  There are some regressions, but I think there's a net
win, and only by releasing and getting things moving again will we
make progress on fixing the regressions...

Thoughts?

Cheers,

f