[Python-Dev] Python 2.6 and 3.0

[Christian Heimes]

Barry Warsaw wrote:
> I'd also like for us to consider doing regular monthly releases.
> Several other FLOSS projects I'm involved with are doing this to very
> good success.  The nice thing is that everyone knows well in advance
> when the next release is going to happen, and so all developers and
> users know what to expect and what is needed from them.
> 
> I'd like to propose that we do a joint release the last Friday of
> every month.  For the alphas, it's basically what's in svn.  This
> gives us some time to experiment with the process out and see if we
> like it enough to keep it going through the betas and final releases.

Thanks for volunteering for the job, Barry!

+1 for release early, release often but I want to point out a resource
issue that may speak against a monthly release cycle. The Windows
binaries still require a large amount of attention and human
interaction. The last Windows binaries were build by me and I spent half
the night ironing out issues and testing the installers. As far as I
know the team only Martin and I have the infrastructure and tools to
build the Windows binaries.

We could cut down the time requirements by shipping only normal binaries
instead of PGO (profile guided optimization) binaries. IMHO we could
also skip the AMD64 builds until we have reached beta stage. But it's
still going to cost either Martin or me the better half of a Friday night.

I won't have time to assist with the Windows builds next Friday. I'm
more than busy with personal life and job interviews. Hopefully I'm
going to find a job that allows me to work on the Python core as much as
during the past few months.


That's for the Windows builds. Now I have a list of bugs and features I
like to see fixed / applied before the next release:

http://bugs.python.org/issue1692335 Fix exception pickling: Move initial
args assignment to BaseException.__new__

http://bugs.python.org/issue1792 (trivial performance patch for marshal)

http://bugs.python.org/issue1569 MS VCRT redist issue. IIRC Martin had a
working solution for it in his sandbox.

http://bugs.python.org/issue1657 my kqueue and epoll patch, just needs
another review

Christian