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

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@zope.com
Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:03:19 -0400

"FLD" == Fred L Drake, <fdrake@acm.org> writes:

FLD> Jeremy Hylton writes:

We consider both a set of functional goals and a release schedule. We don't want to make these decisions in isolation. If there are N

FLD> That's right. But we definately determine the release schedule FLD> without any regard for what else is on our schedule, and we FLD> don't make changes to the schedule based on what gets added to FLD> our schedule before we're done.

FLD> Or that's been my perception at least.

We chose a release schedule a few weeks or months after the previous release, and it always slides. So I think we do adjust the schedule to some extent. Did we add an extra alpha or beta release of the type-class unification?

On the other hand, we tend to resist too much slippage after the schedule has been set. There was definitely a lot of pressure to get the future stuff for nested_scopes into 2.1 without causing the schedule to be delayed :-O.

Jeremy