[Python-Dev] Re: PEP Politics (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Tue, 9 Apr 2002 13:28:11 -0500 

mal> Regarding the subject line: don't know if it's just me, but I would
mal> like to see some of the conservative development style we had
mal> established a few years ago return in Python's development process.
mal> Some of the recent developments left me under the impression of the
mal> need to rush changes with no apparent reason (for rushing them).

I think this is a side-effect of having a largely time-based instead of goal-based release process. With a goal-based release process you can effectively say:

We will sell no wine before its time.
- Orson Welles, in a Paul Masson ad from my childhood

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