[Python-Dev] PEP 6: Patch and Bug Fix Releases

[aahz@pobox.com (Aahz Maruch)]

>> BDFL proclamation received.  It'll take me a little while to rewrite
>> this into an internally consistent PEP.  It would be helpful if you
>> pre-announced (to c.l.py.announce) the official change in feature release
>> policy (the 6-12 month target instead of a 6 month target).
> 
> You're reading too much in it. :-)

Mmmmm....  Probably.

> I don't want to commit to a precise release interval anyway -- no two
> releases are the same.

That's very good to hear.  Perhaps I'm alone in this perception, but it
has sounded to me as though there's a goal (if not a "precise" interval)
of a release every six months.  Here's a quote from you on c.l.py:

"Given our current pace of releases that should be about 6 months warning."

With your current posting frequency to c.l.py, such oracular statements
have some of the force of a Proclamation.  ;-)
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