[Python-Dev] Timing for Py2.4

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Mar 30 11:40:47 EST 2004


> I have no interest in having my motives or my intentions
> maligned any further. I volunteered as release manager
> purely from a desire to help the Python community, my only
> goal is to keep Python's release quality at a high level.
> 
> Due to abusive private email, I have no interest in
> continuing this thread. Cutting releases is a non-trivial
> amount of (quite boring, and high concentration) work.
> Demands that I spend time on it when it suits someone
> else are both insulting and unrealistic. Being accused
> of bad faith because I have a different belief in the
> correct time to do a release is beyond insulting.
> 
> If anyone is absolutely wanting to do the release sooner
> than the timeframe we discussed at PyCon, they're welcome
> to it. But don't take this on unless you're going to do
> it right, and all of it. This includes all the cross-platform
> testing, and chasing up people to make sure it gets tested on
> the more obscure platforms. I'm still planning to get a 2.3.4
> out in May, and if the 2.4 release happens in the timeframe
> that I can deal with it, I'm happy to do it.

Ouch.  Clearly Anthony and Raymond aren't getting along.  I've asked
both off-line for more details and hope to resolve this ASAP.  Both of
them have made great contributions to Python, and this community has
room for both of them.  While tempers may flare occasionally, we
should be able to quickly revert to our normal polite tone of
conversation, where facts count rather than personalities.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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