[Python-Dev] Proposed schedule for Python 3.4

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Nick Coghlan writes:

 > I proposed to Larry originally that we start the alphas 6 months
 > after 3.3.0,

I like this idea better, even though to keep the total workload
constant you'd need to more than double the interval between alphas.
Still, a 10- or 12-month release schedule feels like a much bigger
commitment to me (and I have managed a release that took 6 months, so
I do know what that feels like for real).

 > but he didn't like that idea, so I since reduced it to simply doing
 > alpha 1 early so that it din't mean any more work for the release
 > team.

Heck, if you're only going to have *one* early alpha, you could do it
yourself, and see if you can persuade the installer builders to
volunteer one extra build.