[Python-Dev] Proposed schedule for Python 3.4

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 20:05:24 +0200
Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 20:25:17 +0530
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
> > > I don't agree.  It's my understanding that the alphas are largely ignored,
> > > and having them earlier would hardly make them more relevant.
> > 
> > I would appreciate it you stopped promoting this myth. Each step in
> > the release process widens the pool of people providing feedback.
> 
> Well, if you look at the download statistics at
> http://www.python.org/webstats/ or even at the bug influx when
> publishing an alpha, it seems clear to me that alphas have almost no
> impact.

Erm, I hadn't seen Brian's reply before sending this. Apparently there
*are* people who download the alphas, which for some reason I had
overlooked in the stats pages. My mistake, sorry.

Regards

Antoine.


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