[Python-Dev] whither PEP 407 and 413 (release cycle PEPs)?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jun 03, 2012, at 01:22 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>- Some people (Barry in particular) are in favor of timed releases.
>   I don't know what the actual motivation for timed releases is, but

Timed releases in general can provide much better predictability for others
depending on those releases.  E.g. folks working on things to go into Python
can plan better how to make sure their stuff is ready in time, and downstreams
can *much* better plan on which Python versions to include in their products
and releases.

Having said that, unless there's widespread consensus within the Python
developers for timed releases, then it's not going to work, either within the
context of those PEPs or not.  After the last round of mostly negative
feedback, I don't personally have much motivation to push these through.

-Barry