[Python-Dev] Release question (original) (raw)

Martin v. L�wis martin@v.loewis.de
30 May 2003 08:37:00 +0200

Jack Diederich <jack@performancedrivers.com> writes:

The PEPs are pretty thorough about how to announce and build releases. My question is about cvs, branching, and feature freezes. I joined python-dev after the 2.2 release so I haven't been around for a 'round number' release yet.

Notice that PEP 101 does talk about CVS branches and tags, for releases. Branches are not used much for anything else in Python.

I'm guessing 2.3 is in bugfix only mode.

Correct; there will be one more beta, release candidates, and a release.

When is 2.4 tagged, and what is the timeframe on that? (the linux kernel generally waits a while before starting the next dev branch).

This is not how Python works. Immediately after 2.3 is released, 2.4 development starts. Bugs discovered in 2.3 are then fixed both on the 2.3-maint branch and HEAD (if there are any volunteers from the PBF, those patches may also get applied to the 2.2-maint branch if applicable).

In Linux, a new "unstable" kernel is usually started with a major restructuring of everything, so the "unstable" code base diverges quickly from the previous release. This is not the case for Python - we still have a lot of code that was in 1.5.

Regards, Martin