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

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:32:42 -0400

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Jeremy Hylton wrote:

>>>>> "SM" == Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

SM> Oh well. Guido already complains (rightfully so, I believe) SM> that there is very little community input on the existing SM> alpha/beta/rc1/rc2 process. As he put it earlier today, people SM> who check out 2.2final think they are early adopters. If most SM> people don't test out early releases now, Tim's been wasting his SM> time generating all those installers. Here you say: Few people download and test development releases.

Skip's already answered with half of my point. The other half that's critical to this is making it easy and comfortable to try out dev releases and promoting this through the community. We want to encourage people to do this, and in my time on python-dev (plus more time on c.l.py), I have seen little attempt to directly address this.

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