[Python-Dev] Stability and change (original) (raw)

Paul Svensson paul@svensson.org
Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:54:37 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Make X.Y.0.N the experimental branch, settling down to X.Y.1 as the final stable release, following up with X.Y.Z as bugfix-only releases, and the next round of experimentals continuing from X.(Y+1).0.0. This is attractive, if we can make sure that everything settles between 2.x.0 and 2.x.1. That leaves us only alpha and beta releases of 2.x.1 to experiment. Could be a long string of betas...

The whole idea is that N can grow as large as you like it, before you declare the release stable, and rename it.

/Paul