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

[Georg Brandl]

Guido van Rossum schrieb:

>>> Perhaps it's time to separate the 2.6 and 3.0 release schedules? I
>>> don't care if the next version of OSX contains 3.0 or not -- but I do
>>> care about it having 2.6.
>>
>> I'm not really sure what good that would do us unless we wanted to
>> bring 3.0 back to the beta phase and continue to work on some larger
>> issues with it. I also suspect doing two separate, but close together
>> final releases would be more stressful than having them in lock and
>> step.
> 
> 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).

Even if I can't contribute very much at the moment, I'm still +1 to that.
I doubt Python would get nice publicity if we released a 3.0 but had to
tell everyone, "but don't really use it yet, it may still contain any
number of showstoppers."

>> Just my pocket change, though.

I'm suspecting this is much more than $0.02 :D

Georg


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