[SciPy-dev] Timetable for 0.5.3 release?

[David M. Cooke]

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 09:41:52PM -0700, Nathan Bell wrote:
> Is there a timetable for the next SciPy release?  The last release was
> quite a while ago, so I think we're due :)
> 
> I realize that releases are somewhat unimportant for much of the SciPy
> audience, since they'll go straight for the SVN version anyway.
> However, it's nice to tell casual users that they can apt-get XYZ and
> try your software.  Personally, my code depends critically on the
> improvements to scipy.sparse made shortly after the last release, so
> I'm anxious to push this along.
> 
> FWIW there are currently 15 items on the roadmap for 0.5.3:
> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/scipy/roadmap

Perhaps we should move to a timetable-based release schedule for scipy?
Every three months, release the current svn version. Also making a
release after a numpy release is a good idea, so that the current
versions work with each other.

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