[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Proposed revised schedule

[Christian Heimes]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Well, from the number of release blockers it sounds like another 3.0
> beta is the right thing. For 2.6 however I believe we're much closer
> to the finish line -- there aren't all those bytes/str issues to clean
> up, for example! And apparently the benefit of releasing on schedule
> is that we will be included in OSX. That's a much bigger deal for 2.6
> than for 3.0 (I doubt that Apple would add two versions anyway).

I'm on Guido's side.

Ok, from the marketing perspective it's a nice catch to release 2.6 and 
3.0 on the same day. "Python 2.6.0 and 3.0.0 released" makes a great 
headline.
But given the chance to get Python 2.6 into the next OSX version it's 
fine with me to release 3.0 a couple of weeks later. Python 3.0 is not 
ready for a release candidate. We just fixed a bunch of memory leaks and 
critical errors over the last week. And don't forget Windows! The 
Windows builds didn't get thorough testing because we didn't provide our 
tests with official builds.

I'm +1 for a 2.6rc and another beta of 3.0

Christian