[Python-3000] Python 3.0a2 release

[Christian Heimes]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Is there anything that you (or anyone else!) would really like to see
> added to or fixed in 3.0a2? Now's the time!

I like to have the bugs w/o priority or high and important priority
reviewed before we release 3.0a2.

http://bugs.python.org/issue?@columns=title,id,activity,status&@sort=-activity&@group=priority&@filter=versions,status&@pagesize=50&@startwith=0&status=1&versions=12&@dispname=py3k%20open

We should also start to discuss how to address some Windows problems.
Amaury has brought up some important points and I like to get some
feedback on the default compiler topic. Are we going to drop VS 2003
after the 3.0a2 release and use VS 2008 as the default compiler?

Christian