[Python-Dev] Goals for patch selection for 2.1.2

[Tim Peters]

[Aahz]
> ...
> (Back when I knew less about Unix than I do now, I was two weeks into a
> new job, dealing with a customer who was complaining about being unable
> to install the latest release of our software.  I tracked it down to a
> syntax error in the install shell script -- proving that *NOBODY* from
> QA had bothered to do an actual test install with the released CD.)

In my Cray Research days, releases were shipped on magnetic tape.  A day
after one major release, customers started to report that the tapes they got
were blank -- the tape unit write head was in fact utterly dead, but nobody
had bothered to even trying reading the release media, let alone install
from it.

PythonLabs has also shipped damaged tarballs.  The only thing we haven't
done is ship an empty Windows installer <wink>.